HTML Comment Tag: <!-- -->

Just about every programming or scripting language has a way to set aside certain bits of text as comments. Whatever is placed inside this tag will be ignored by the browswer. However, it will be displayed if somone views the source of your document so make sure you don't leave private or inappropriate data in comments.
Comments allow you to annotate the pages and create markers for seaching in your HTML editing program. If someone else needs to edit your pages, comments can make things easier to read. People also use comments for temporarily removing something that may be replaced later.

Example

A good use for comments is creating a descriptive header.
<!--
   Document Name: sample.html
   Author: Blaise Pascal
   Date Created: 03/22/2002
-->		 To see the results of this code you must view the document's source.

Attributes:

none