HTML comments are not displayed in the browser, but they can help document your HTML source code.

HTML Comment Tags

You can add comments to your HTML source by using the following syntax:

<!-- Write your comments here -->

Notice that there is an exclamation point (!) in the start tag, but not in the end tag.

Note: Comments are not displayed by the browser, but they can help document your HTML source code.

With comments you can place notifications and reminders in your HTML code:

Example

<!-- This is a comment -->

<p>This is a paragraph.</p>

<!-- Remember to add more information here -->

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Comments are also great for debugging HTML, because you can comment out HTML lines of code, one at a time, to search for errors:

Example

<!-- Do not display this image at the moment
<img border="0" src="pic_trulli.jpg" alt="Trulli">
-->

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HTML Exercises

Test Yourself With Exercises

Exercise:

Use the HTML comment tag to make a comment out of the "This is a comment" text.

<h1>This is a heading</h1>
 This is a comment 
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>