A comment is descriptive text that you insert in HTML code to explain the document's code or to provide other information. A comment does not affect the appearance of the document in a browser.

See also Invisible Elements preferences.

To insert a comment:

1	Place the cursor where you want the comment.
2	Click the Comment button on the Objects palette or choose Insert > Comment.

To display comment markers in the Document window, choose View > Invisible Elements.

To enter comment text:

1	Select the Comments icon.
2	Enter text in the Property inspector.

Creating a comment generates the following HTML code:

<!-- Comment text.--> 

Note: Dreamweaver adds a space after the comment characters, like this: <!--(space). In some cases this can interfere with server-side include and exec commands. For example, if you enter # include virtual = "/js/door:js/" in the comment fields the include would not work. To work around this condition, you can change the object file for comments so that it doesn't add a space after <!--. See Creating a new object.