Hi Angus, The comment you use depends on the context. If you are in a PHP interpreted section, use /* ... */ (for a block comment), // or # (for commenting out the rest of a line).
The syntax you are using works in (X)HTML and as John points out your syntax is incorrect. You also cannot have two dashes contained in the (X)HTML comment block. A correct example using both comment styles would be: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <title>My title</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" rev="stylesheet" href=" /css/styles.css" /> <!--[if lt IE 7]> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" rev="stylesheet" href=" /css/styles_ie6.css" /> <![endif]--> </head> <body> <div> <!-- This text is sent to the browser but is ignored. --> Your IP is: <?php echo $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; // comment to end of line ?> <?php /* This entire block is interpreted by the server and is stripped out. It never gets sent to the browser */ ?> </div> </body> </html> Hope that helps, Kepler -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hayden's Harness Attachment Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 12:41 AM To: WSG List Subject: [WSG] Comment mark I would like to appologize if I am off topic. I am not sure who to ask. I am using <!-- ... --!> to comment out a line in a PHP file. Firefox2.x will use it to comment out a link and IE7 will not use. Am I doing the commenting a line out right? Angus ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
