On the topic of commenting styles, I use the following:
<!-- [header + logo -->
<div id="header">
...
</div>
<!-- header] -->
So the id of the element is right next to a opening or closing square
bracket indicating if it's a start or end of the block.
Works well for us.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Kirkwood|Motive
Sent: Friday, 4 November 2005 3:53 p.m.
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Hi Darren,
I haven't reviewed the bug, however if its anything like the issue we've
come across with comments [1] then you could try an alternative method
of commenting the code. (This goes somewhat to the concept of semantic
markup also.)
Rather than:
<!-- begin footer -->
<div id="footer">
...
</div>
<!-- end footer -->
try:
<div id="footer">
...
<!-- end footer --></div>
Rationale: The id attribute identifies the nature of the <div> (as a
result of taking a semantic approach to assigning the id value there is
no need 'duplicate' this information in the comment). It is more
problematic to keep track of the end of the <div>, and so a comment is
useful. Placing the end comment inside the </div> avoids the issue with
floats and comments.
Admittedly, it took me a while to get used to the new coding convention,
but the judicious use of white space helps.
[1] Bug caused by floats and comments: <
http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/dup-characters.html >
>We've worked out that the issue was caused by the comments in the HTML
>file. Has anyone had this sort of issue before? If there a solution
>other then removing the comments?
Best regards,
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Motive | web.design.integrity
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