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HTML Treehouse Club: HTML Publish a Story Comments and Doctype

Posted by placydus patrick
placydus patrick
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in eclipse to add comment was to use "//" and now in treehouse its ''<--" why does this vary

i want to know if it changes because im using a different programming software

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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It changes because it's a different language :smiley: JavaScript, C# and others use //. HTML uses <!-- and --> for comments. Different languages have different commenting rules and styles.

edited for accuracy