How to add comments in HTML

In programming or coding, comments provide readability, understandability, clarifications, helpful notes, and so on. It is a good practice to add comments in your code. While writing HTML, you can also add comments.

Syntax

<!-- [comment] -->

HTML comments begin with the <!-- tag and are closed with the --> tag.

Note: The opening tag has an exclamation mark, but the closing tag does not.

Examples

Just like in other languages, comments can be single-line or multi-line. In HTML, we use the same syntax for both.

<!-- This is a single line comment -->
<!-- This is a
multi-line comment
in HTML-->

Demo

Let’s demonstrate the use of a comment in HTML in the following code by making sure that only one p element is displayed on the browser.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>HTML Comment</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This paragraph should display</p>
<!-- Hey browser don't display this
<p>This paragraph should not display yet</p>
-->
</body>
</html>

Thanks for reading!

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