How to use comments like /* */ in templates

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titanium Reply #1, 16 years, 8 months ago

Hi,

I wonder how I can use comments in my templates, which are not shown in the resulting frontend HTML code. I tried

<!-- my comment here -->

That’s an ordinary HTML comment, and it’s shown in the frontend - I don’t want that. In PHP, I normaly use

<?php /* my comment */ ?>

But you can’t use PHP in a template.

How do you comment your templates?

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anonymized-26931 Reply #2, 16 years, 8 months ago

and it’s shown in the frontend

on the actual site or in the source code? using

<!-- my comment here -->

works for me btw.

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titanium Reply #3, 16 years, 8 months ago

Quote from: sharkbait at Jan 21, 2010, 04:17 AM

and it’s shown in the frontend
on the actual site or in the source code? using

works for me btw.

Oh, I should have written it more precisely;

<!-- my comment here -->

works, it’s shown in the source of the frontend website. But I don’t want it to be shown in the source of the frontend site. I just want to be able to comment my code in the backend templates.

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anonymized-26931 Reply #4, 16 years, 8 months ago

guess you could easily write a plugin to remove the comments on system event "OnWebPagePrerender"

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Eoler Reply #5, 16 years, 8 months ago

Quote from: titanium at Jan 21, 2010, 04:07 AM

How do you comment your templates?

[[TODO:this comment is non-existing snippet, so MODx parser will ignore it...]]

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titanium Reply #6, 16 years, 8 months ago

These are great ideas! Thanks a lot!