CSS - smarter code comments

Question

I read some time ago about a way to comment a css block in a such way that you only need to remove one end of the comment character set in case you want to uncomment the block later.

But I can't remember how it was done :( Maybe someone here does know :)

Answer 1

/* * /

.class { color: #ffa; }

/* */

The space between the * and / in the first line causes the comment block to be un-closed until the final, paired, */ on the last line.

If you close that space then the .class css is un-commented.

For languages such as php and JavaScript the opening /* in the last line can be replaced with a // as a single-line comment:

/* */
$name = $_POST['first_name'] . " " . $_POST['last_name'];
// */

I think it's called 'lazy-commenting' or something, but I'm not sure.