How to comment uncomment in HTML code

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Often while coding view templates in html  my habit of adding some helpful comments causes lots of time-consuming effort while testing   Consider this code      lt  -- Here starts the sidebar -- gt   lt div id  sidebar  gt        lt  div gt    lt  -- Here starts the main contents pane -- gt   lt div id  main-contents  gt       lt  div gt    lt  -- Here starts the footer -- gt   lt div id  footer  gt       lt  div gt    Now  if I have to hide out some portion of the view template  in case of php I would just select the desired code and put single-line comments  using a shortcut key most of the times     However  in html code  where only the block comments work  I end-up removing all the closing comment tags  --   till the position I want the commenting to occur - something like this      lt  -- Here starts the sidebar  lt div id  sidebar  gt        lt  div gt    lt  -- Here starts the main contents pane  lt div id  main-contents  gt       lt  div gt    lt  -- Here starts the footer  lt div id  footer  gt       lt  div gt -- gt    Then when I m done testing I have to go through the agony of putting back those closing tags   Is there a better and time saving way of block commenting in HTML

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No  Unless you find a tool that does what you described for you

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Eclipse Juno has a good way for it  You just do the cmd

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Yes  to comment structural metadata out  Using  lt script gt           lt  script gt  in  html Comment out large sections of HTML  Comment Out Block  my personal way in a  html file is opening   lt script gt    and close it with    lt  script gt   lt script gt    hiding code go here    lt  script gt  Is a workaround to the problem since is not HTML  Considering your code in  html       lt  -- Here starts the sidebar -- gt     lt div id  quot sidebar quot  gt            lt  div gt    lt script gt       lt  -- Here starts the main contents pane -- gt     lt div id  quot main-contents quot  gt           lt  div gt      lt  -- Here starts the footer -- gt     lt div id  quot footer quot  gt           lt  div gt     lt  script gt   And in a case is HTML inside PHP file using comment tag  lt     or  lt  php    and close it with     gt    Remember that the file must be  php extension and don t work in  html   lt     hiding code go here     gt  Considering your code in  php       lt  -- Here starts the sidebar -- gt     lt div id  quot sidebar quot  gt            lt  div gt    lt        lt  -- Here starts the main contents pane -- gt     lt div id  quot main-contents quot  gt           lt  div gt      lt  -- Here starts the footer -- gt     lt div id  quot footer quot  gt           lt  div gt      gt   Is worth nothing that is not HTML but a common developer practice is to comment out parts of metadata so that it will not be rendered and or executed in the browser  In HTML  commenting out multiple lines can be time-consuming  It is useful to exclude pieces of template structural metadata containing comments  CSS or code and systematically commenting out to find the source of an error  It is considered a bad practice to comment blocks out and it is recommended to use a version control system  The attribute  quot type quot  is required in HTML4 and optional in HTML5

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opener      closer   for example    lt html gt      lt p gt Commented P Tag  lt  p gt     lt html gt

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I find this to be the bane of XML style document commenting too  There are XML editors like eclipse that can perform block commenting  Basically automatically add extra  per line and remove them  May be they made it purposefully hard to comment that style of document it was supposed to be self explanatory with the tags after all

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you can try to replace -- gt  with a different string say   END  and do search and replace with your editor when you wish to return the closing tags

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Depends on the extension  If it s  html  you can use  lt   to start and   gt  to end a comment  That s really the only alternative that I can think of  http   jsfiddle net SuEAW

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The following works well in a  php file    lt php    your block you want commented out     gt

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My view templates are generally  php files  This is what I would be using for now    lt  php    Some comment here   gt    The solution is quite similar to what  Robert suggested  works for me  Is not very clean I guess

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Depending on your editor  this should be a fairly easy macro to write      Go to beginning of line or highlighted area Insert  lt  -- Go to end of line or highlighted area Insert -- gt    Another macro to reverse these steps  and you are done   Edit  this simplistic approach does not handle nested comment tags  but should make the commenting uncommenting easier in the general case

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Put a space between the  --   of your header comments  e g   - -

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