commenting out a block of code?

[hawkman2]

I know that <!-- some html code -->

will comment out that line of code, but what if I want to comment out a large block of code? Do i have to do that at beggining and end of each line? ugh.

[Agent_Embryo]

no. just do it at the beginning and the end of the code you want blocked out.

[hawkman2]

Hmm I tried that and it didnt work. Is it something different for javascript?

[crouse]

<!--

<br>
<font color="#ffffff">
<u>This is commented out</u>
</font>

-->

Make sure there are no other -->

before your ending --.

[crouse]

For JavaScript

Original Code

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--   // Array ofmonth Names
var monthNames = new Array( "January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December");
var now = new Date();
thisYear = now.getYear();
if(thisYear < 1900) {thisYear += 1900}; // corrections if Y2K display problem
document.write(monthNames[now.getMonth()] + " " + now.getDate() + ", " + thisYear) ;
// -->
</script>

Code Commented out below-----------

<!--   // Array ofmonth Names
var monthNames = new Array( "January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December");
var now = new Date();
thisYear = now.getYear();
if(thisYear < 1900) {thisYear += 1900}; // corrections if Y2K display problem
document.write(monthNames[now.getMonth()] + " " + now.getDate() + ", " + thisYear) ;
// -->

just remove the Script tags..... that should solve your problem

HTH's

[Wynd]

Or, you can do this:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
/*var monthNames = new Array( "January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December");
var now = new Date();
thisYear = now.getYear();
if(thisYear < 1900) {thisYear += 1900}; // corrections if Y2K display problem
document.write(monthNames[now.getMonth()] + " " + now.getDate() + ", " + thisYear) ;*/
// -->
</script>

// is only for one line, /*...*/ can be used for more than one line

[crouse]

Um........ that was originally one line of code........ broke down to display........

I think he was trying to figure out how to comment out a block of code.......... so it didn't work............ but wasn't totally erased........ your way would still run the javascript.....

[^hyd^]

Wynd is right actually... in javascript you can comment one line of code with // or you can comment a block/section/line of code by enclosing it in /* ... */

as in the following (red will not run, green will run)

(one line)
/* ...some code... */
or
(one line)
// ...some code...

(multiple lines)
/* ...some code...
...some more code...
...some more code... */

or even (section in one line, not really recommended tho!!)
...some code /* ...some commented out code... */ ...some more code here too...

I could be missing something, but I really can't see that being one line of code anyways (not to say your wrong crouse) or if it was, imo, poor coding practice... but even if it was one line, it still looked to be commented out properly...

anyways, cheers!

[crouse]

I stand corrected

I'm not a javascript guru..... I looked.... you guys are right ... that would do it also...

[hawkman2]

Thanks gang, that did it! Ok who wants to launch commentout.com that lists how to comment out for all the languages?