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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 11:59:07AM -0500, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> On 12/13/05, Susan LaBarre <idodesign AT earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Thanks for the clarification, Steve. Many years ago, when I learned HTML, 
> > we
> > were told it didn't matter how many dashes were inside a comment tag.
> >
> > I've been purposely making them extra long so they'd be easier to spot by
> > administrators who were maintaining pages I'd created. Duh...
> 
> One way to do that, btw, is to just place a space after the first two and
> then add your extra dashes like this:
> 
> <!-- ---------------- comment here ------------------- -->

No, no, no. It's '--', not '<!-- ' and ' -->' that are the comment
delimiters.
 
> That is valid,

No, actually, it's not :)

> but you also might want to consider moving over to using
> something like an asterisk instead, just in case you lose the space there.

...said space having nothing to do with anything. :)
 
> <!-- ********************** comment here ******************* -->

Or, you might want to consider using an editor or source viewer that
displays comments and their contents in a different color, so you don't
feel the need to fill your pages with junk :)

Steve

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