Who thought it be a good idea to use "<!---->" for comments rather than "//".

W3C guys

/*
*/

@Alice i mean i understand most of the syntax requires it but considering most languages use " //" i think it makes sense to use it. Unless ofcourse there is another reason.

@techno848 // comments only one line

HTML Programmers...

Think how much pain it would have caused in the long run. Esp these days when some pages are one liners. Also <! - - suits the general style more I suppose.

Please don't tell me you don't minify your pages.

Havent worked much with web technologies@PrivateGER

</ comment />

/**/ this is also sorta common inother languages @rookiemaverick

@norman70688 mind blown

Uhh commenting html?

Why not :3@devTea

@devTea I comment my HTML quite a bit. It's really helpful when you're looking at stuff for the first time in a couple months to get an idea of what your original thought process is. Obviously there's no logic that needs explaining but that doesn't mean comments are unnecessary

Well for instance...

<a href="//something.com/my/asset.{format}”>Something</a> would not work here :D

I like how the rant turned against OP.

Seriously, it looks like you said the first thing it came up your mind, without thinking WHY it is that way..

<div>// Why do you even question this?</div>

Long story short: Markup vs Code

Rather use a #

@arshcaptano

<a href="#">#rant-tag</a>

@xewl oh shucks!

@taglia its a rant, plus i am interested in the reason behind it as well

@TylerDurden thats not how you rant

@Phlisg aaah i get it.

@jespersh i just meant the one used in html is hard to use at least for me

@techno848 if you don't know something, you have to do a research to improve your knowledge, not ranting about it.
Just saying..

@taglia didnt know this was stackoverflow, its not meant to be technically right.

Ummm? @Alice

Well from your context it sounded like you hate html comment and ask why isn’t it // instead

@devTea i mean i get it but its just hard to use so i dont like it or you could say i am used to the other more common way of doing it, legit didnt even think before posting i think thats how you rant :p ?

Shortcut for line or block comment.
Seriously why complaining about that ?

@techno848 what ide did you used? There should be a shortcut to block a text and make it a comment

Aah never used that, i am actually working with the d3js library to display ireland's map so ofcourse there is some html, i am not using any IDE but visual studio code. @devTea

Vscode shortcut for commenting a block is ctrl+k+c

You learn new things everyday xD @devTea

Who comments by hand? Learn the shortcut. Ctrl / in intellij for example. Also jsx comments are probably the worst lol