Why doesn't HTML comment tags work?

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  esteppiano · Member · Feb 5, 2014 at 12:31 am

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  Coding within my text editor, I’ve noticed that <!– this is a comment –> does not work. Why? There is data that I am placing on my pages, like anchors, and not all of them need to be active at the moment. Why can’t I hide them with comment tags?

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Feb 5, 2014 at 2:21 pm

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  Hi Estep,

  Currently, it is working for me. Please make sure you are in the Text Editor and not the Visual Editor.

  Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!

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  esteppiano · Member · Feb 5, 2014 at 8:43 pm

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  It IS working! My mistake was not getting the comment syntax correct. I was trying to do this:
  “<!– Top of Page –>”
  and hide a link to an anchor. It no worky! LOL!
  I did this instead:
  “<!– a href=”#top” Top of Page /a –>”
  Too many greater-than, less-than characters. This helped, too:
  http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/wilbur/misc/comment.html

  Thanks for the quick response. At least I know it works. When searching for this data in FAQ and/or the acceptable HTML codes list, this topic does not come up. I would not have bothered you if I could have come up with it, myself.

  Cheers!

  ~Victoria (webmistress of http://www.esteppiano.com)

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Feb 6, 2014 at 11:15 am

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  I’m glad to hear it! Please let me know if you have any other questions!

  Cheers!