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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Making Decisions with Conditional Statements Document Your Code With Comments

Posted by Christopher Sea
Christopher Sea
3,726 Points

Another way to write a comment.

if (correctGuess) {
    document.write/*document.write is used to write statements on the page*/('<p>You guessed the number!</p>');
}

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,785 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,785 Points

:point_right: You've discovered the Multi-line comment format:

// While this comment is in force to the end of the current line

/* A comment like this can span multiple lines,
   or as in your example, can comment out a portion of a line
   with code on both sides.
*/
Christopher Sea
Christopher Sea
3,726 Points

Wouldn't mine still be a single line comment?

Joshua Hardy
Joshua Hardy
17,317 Points

Christopher, even though your comment only uses a single line, you formatted it as a multi line comment. This means that you can put multiple lines in the comment. If you would have used the single line syntax, you would be limited to one line of comment.