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Comments

Comments can appear anywhere in an HTML document, except within a tag, and are enclosed between the strings <!- and ->, like this:

    <!- This is a comment ->

Comments may not be nested: browsers will regard everything after the first comment terminator as markup.

Although strictly speaking the end of comment is denoted by the string ->, some browsers regard the single character >, without the preceding double hyphen, as a comment terminator.

Spinning the Web by Andrew Ford
© 1995 International Thomson Publishing
© 2002 Andrew Ford and Ford & Mason Ltd
Note: this HTML document was generated in December 1994 directly from the LaTeX source files using LaTeX2HTML. It was formatted into our standard page layout using the Template Toolkit. The document is mainly of historical interest as obviously many of the sites mentioned have long since disappeared.