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Posted by Ruth Chorney
Ruth Chorney
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Commenting out

On one of the flexbox tutorials Guil commented out several lines of code. I think he used command /. It doesn't seem to work for me. What is the answer.

5 Answers

Thomas Nilsen
Thomas Nilsen
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/*
      This is a comment
*/
Ruth Chorney
Ruth Chorney
2,689 Points

Guil seemed to create this by selecting several lines of code and used command /. Is there a way of bracketing several lines without typing /* */

Dale Severude
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Dale Severude
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It depends on what OS you are using. Command / creates a comment in Mac, Control / creates a comment in Windows.

Sergey Podgornyy
Sergey Podgornyy
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Sergey Podgornyy
Sergey Podgornyy
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Comments in CSS placed inside /* ... */

You can read this article - https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/comments-in-css/

Ruth Chorney
Ruth Chorney
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Ruth Chorney
Ruth Chorney
2,689 Points

Thank you for your answer. The control / works great in the workspaces but not at all using my text editor which is Microsoft Expression Web 4. What text editor would you recommend?

Sergey Podgornyy
Sergey Podgornyy
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I suggest you Sublime Text with following plugins: PackageControl, SideBarEnhancements (!), SublimeCodeIntel (cool autocomplete), GitGutter (!), AutoFileName (autocomplete to filepaths), ColorHighlighter (highlight code of colors).

And also, nice to have, SublimeLinter (validator), SublimeLinter-contrib-eslint (validator), Jquery Snippet Pack, babel, babel-snippets, Javascript Snippets

Dale Severude
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Brackets is a free text editor that will handle the comments shortcuts.