Comment

The Comment interface represents textual notations within markup; although it is generally not visually shown, such comments are available to be read in the source view.

Comments are represented in HTML and XML as content between '<!--' and '-->'. In XML, the character sequence '--' cannot be used within a comment.

Properties

This interface has no specific property, but inherits those of its parent, CharacterData, and indirectly those of Node.

Constructor

Comment()

Returns a Comment object with the parameter as its textual content.

Methods

This interface has no specific method, but inherits those of its parent, CharacterData, and indirectly those of Node.

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
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Comment
1
12
1
9
≤12.1
3
1
18
Yes
≤12.1
1
1.0
Comment
29
16
24
No
16
7
≤37
29
24
16
7
2.0

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Comment