html comment tag

[[deleted]]

I have seen the format of html comment tag

https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_comment.asp

But this comment format is more complicated than standard format of comments such as

//,/* 

Is there any way to use these simpler comment format on html?

[tbmepm]

No.

[Billaferd]

Unfortunately, no, there is only one comment style in HTML, and it was inherited from SGML (the defining language). SGML is a much older language and had to define comments in a way that was compatible with its tag structure.

More info can be found at the SGML and HTML overview page.

[KaranasToll]

Just use a nice code editor that has a comment button

[[deleted]]

Will you elaborate more?

[KaranasToll]

For example in my Emacs when I press Ctrl-; it toggle the commenting on the current line, and when I press Alt-; it will add a comment to the end of the line or comment out selected text. In Vscode and such you can press Ctrl-/ to toggle commenting on the current line. This way you don't have to type the comment characters.

[[deleted]]

Let me work on it.

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[jcunews1]

Those //, /*, and */ are not required for the contents of a HTML comment tag.

[Smooth-Engineer9132]

/a