HTML Tutorial 14 - Making Comments Video Lecture | HTML Basics- Create a designed webpage from Scratch - Software Development

everybody this is Brian if you're
following along in our HTML series
this is video 14 today we're going to be
talking about comments so what are
comments and how can they help you if
you look at this code you'll see that
this is the exact same code from our
last tutorial the table in a table but
you notice how it's very unreadable it's
hard for you to kind of pick through
here and see what you're looking at I
mean what is all this stuff well that's
what comments do comments allow you to
easily break things up I'm going to make
a comment real quick here it's just a a
less than symbol with an exclamation
mark three dashes spaced three dashes
and a greater than symbol and inside
these dashes you can say anything you
want no save your work flip back to your
page refresh and you notice how it's not
in your page at all but actually in the
code it's right above where this word
header is it's a comment this may be a
new thing for some of you guys but so
many programmers out there will know
exactly what I mean a comment is a way
of leaving yourself a note for example
end of header and we'll just put startup
header save your work flip back over
your page refresh once again doesn't
appear anywhere it's just a comment for
you so you can kind of tell yourself
where you are what's going on what this
section really means a lot of times
programs will use comments to really
define certain areas of a page you know
they'll they'll look for specific
markers or comments
see now when you look at this coat you
can look through and just focus on your
comments to see what's going on here you
can see you know this is the start of
the header this is the end of the header
what's this oh this is the start of the
body this is the end of the body so I'm
not going to go through and do the rest
but you get the point
comments are helpful and they not only
help you they help anybody else who's
going through for example if you get
hired to do a webpage and you do a lot
of code you should comment it that way
if somebody else has to go in and modify
it they don't have to pick through
hundreds and hundreds of lines of code
trying to figure out exactly what's
going on so I hope you found this video
and entertaining and if you have any
questions or comments just drop me a
line Thanks