Comments in CSS

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  groksurf · Member · Dec 19, 2009 at 7:02 pm

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  I purchased the edit custom CSS option on my WP-hosted blog. When I insert a /* comment */ and save the style, the system strips out the comment. Is there any way to force a comment to remain?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 19, 2009 at 7:11 pm

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  No there is not.

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  groksurf · Member · Dec 19, 2009 at 9:37 pm

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  Alas. I hope they reconsider that. I guess I can keep a copy of the CSS with comments offline, but have to remember to keep them synchonized! Thanks for the reply.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 19, 2009 at 11:46 pm

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  It is done so that all the files take up less space. When you are talking about a large amount of CSS files, this can be a huge amount of space savings. It also makes them load much faster since those lines of text do not have to be sent over the internet to the browser, and the browser does not have to process all those extra lines.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 20, 2009 at 1:26 am

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  On other note: When you save your CSS changes, wordpress actually “compresses” the CSS file and if you view the CSS file from your browser (not through the CSS edit window) it will be one long line or two instead of the normally formatted CSS. Again, this is to minimize storage requirements and to make things load faster.