Hello all:

Does anyone know if there is a way to make comments inside a (x)html tag? I want an eaiser way to keep track of nested elements. I understand that proper indentation will help keep track of opening and closing tags, but sometimes that is hard to achive when you are providing dynamic content (ie php output).

Here is an example of what I mean. Of course, this is only made-up syntax, but to help illustrate what I'm talking about:

<div id="outer" !#="BO outer container">
   <div id="inner" !#="BO inner container">
      Some content here
   </div !#="EO inner container">
</div !#="EO outer container">

I dont think you can actually comment within HTML tags, what you can do is add your comments in a tag that you make up your self.

<img src="XXX.gif" alt="XXX" width="XXX" height="XXX" style="XXX" comment="ADD YOUR COMMENT Here" />

It wont validate XHTML but you can add a cooment there and it wont affect your documents.

but I would just go for normal <!--COMMENTS-->

I just put standard HTML comments immediately after the tag.

<div id="main"> <!-- main container " -->

and comment the closing tag with the ID or class

that's what comment tags are there for

You can do it like so:

<div id="outer" style="/* BO outer container */">blah blah</div>

Not really a clean way, but if you do everything via CSS, then I guess you've got at least a good use for style with comments.


Cheers,

MC

This may be stupid, but why not use the id attribute to name them directly?

<div id="level_1_outer">
<div id="level_2_inner">
Blah blah blah.
</div>
</div>

That way, you know how deeply an element is nested by its level.