Why do /**/ comments work in stylesheets but // comments don't?

Question

Is there a good reason for this? Lame question, but I just wondered if there was a reason why.

Answer 1

Because /* */ is the style that is defined for comments in CSS.

There are a lot of other ways to write comments in other environments that doesn't work in CSS, like:

//

--

'

REM

{ }

;

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