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Developers use comments in their code to
make parts of it easier to understand.

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HTML lets you write comments in the code
that are ignored by the browser.

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So if you're revisiting your
code after several months,

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comments can help you remember what
different parts of your code do.

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Or if another developer is viewing
your code for the first time,

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it will help them to quickly
understand how your code works.

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So comment tags in HTML begin with a less
than symbol followed by an exclamation

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mark and two dashes and they end with
two dashes and a greater than sign.

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And everything between the opening and

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closing characters is
ignored by the browsers.

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Comments are frequently used to indicate
where sections of a page start and end.

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So, for example, here I can write that
this is the start of the wrapper div.

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Then I'll scroll all the way
to the closing div tag and

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add a comment that says, end wrapper div.

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Now when you see the code
change to a light grey color,

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that means that it's commented out.

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And as you can see, the browser does
not display the start wrapper div and

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end wrapper div text written
inside the comment tags.

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Now Workspaces and
most text editors have a shortcut for

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quickly creating or removing comments.

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You place your cursor wherever you
want to include a comment then

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press Command + / on a Mac or
Ctrl + / on Windows.

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And that will create a comment tag for
you.

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Now if you need to select and comment out
large chunks of HTML, you can do that

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by selecting the code and
pressing Command or Ctrl + /.

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And then to remove the comments you can,
once again, select the code and

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press Command or Ctrl + /.

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You can use comments in all
kinds of different ways.

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Just be sure to keep them short and
meaningful.