Comments

Placing comments in a web page helps you keep organized. A webpage can get huge very fast. Comments help mark areas of a web page.

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Using Comments to Hide Markup from Browsers Temporarily

There is no limit to the amount of information you can put into a comment, and

this is why comments are often used to hide a section of a web page temporarily.

Commenting may be preferable to deleting content, particularly if you want to

put that information back into the web page at a later date (if it’s in a comment,

you won’t have to re-type it).

Just to see how this works, create a new html file in your procedures folder and name it commentout.html as this process is often called “commenting out” markup.

Here’s an example: (this is the code for the commentout.html file)