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Sultana 12-14-2005 04:57 PM
HTML Commenting out
 
Hey all!
I am fairly innocent of HTML knowledge (knowledge of good and evil!), but I was hoping someone could tell me how to comment out lines of text in HTML.

I maintain my own website, and I have recurring but not regular performances in different places. I'd like to be able to comment out outdated announcements, so when I get hired again for a place I can just remove the comment code and update the announcement, not have to recreate it every time.

Mucho Grande Gracias!

alpha phi 12-14-2005 05:11 PM
you could make the area with the dates and times a table
I see that the whole area is a single table
Break it up into cells for each show.
save each show data in notepad
then you will just edit the time and date
paste the whole thing into the cell


comments from
example, the line

<!-- This is commented out -->

is a valid comment line, but the line

< !-- This is commented out -->
is not, since there is a space between the left angle bracket and the exclamation mark

Be careful if you use comments to "comment out" HTML that would otherwise be shown to the user, since some older browsers will still pay attention to angle brackets inside the comment and close the comment prematurely -- so that some of the text that was supposed to be inside the comment mistakenly appears as part of the document

Amakudaru 12-18-2005 12:25 PM
Quote:
Be careful if you use comments to "comment out" HTML that would otherwise be shown to the user, since some older browsers will still pay attention to angle brackets inside the comment and close the comment prematurely -- so that some of the text that was supposed to be inside the comment mistakenly appears as part of the document
ok... for that, either try a hyphen or and underscore to separate words... you could then simply replace the separators when you want to show them

kofspades 12-26-2005 08:11 PM
Also remember that commented html code is still sent to the client. So don't put any sensitive information in your commented html code.

Chamaeleontidae 01-05-2006 11:02 AM
You could always use Javascript to turn the text on / off... Here is an example with three lines that show up only if the variable is set to true. If the variable is false it does not display.
Code:
<html>
<head>
    <title>Untitled Page</title>
    <script language=javascript>
        var locationOne = true;
        var locationTwo = false;
        var locationThree = false;
    </script>
   
</head>
<body>
<script language=javascript>
if (locationOne){
    document.write("Playing at location one this week<BR>");
}
if (locationTwo){
    document.write("Playing at location two this week<BR>");
}
if (locationThree){
    document.write("Playing at location three this week<BR>");
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
The text can be any valid HTML. Just watch out for " in you HTML.


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