Web Design HTML Tag: Comment

Located anywhere in a web document, the comment tag is primarily for coding and development purposes. True to its name, a comment tag allows authors to place text within their code that will be ignored by browsers and never shown to visitors. There are number of reasons to include comments; Authors often provide instructions to manipulate or customize code or in order to take credit for their work. Commenting is also a practical tool to help browsers process, or not process, scripts or pieces of code. Browsers with javascript disabled, for instance can read comments to prevent it from (improperly) rendering elements it can’t understand.

Popular in the open-source community, comment tags let any designer or developer reuse code from another author and easily tailor it to the project at hand.