ASP.Net making my html comments visible

Question

In my page source I put: 

and ASP.Net converts it to: 

so by the time it gets to the browser, my comment is visible.

It doesn't do it to all comments and if I add in another comment it sometimes makes the comment go away.

Anyone seen this before? How can I fix it?

Mehrdad Afshari · Accepted Answer · 2009-04-01 12:12:32Z

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Try putting an space before -->. It guess this might help. I haven't had such a problem before though.

It's a good practice:

not to have -- in comments
begin your comments with <!-- without more dashes
end your comments with --> without more dashes

edited Apr 1, 2009 at 12:12

answered Apr 1, 2009 at 12:06

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DanBrad Over a year ago

That does seem to help & I take the point about best practice and will follow that more carefully from now on but quite what ASP.Net is thinking of when deliberately converting the comments I don't know!

Mehrdad Afshari Over a year ago

ASP.NET parser does care about HTML. It parses it on the server to some level. This is how it handles runat="server" tags.

DanBrad Over a year ago

Yep, I get that I guess I expected it to just ignore anything it doesn't understand. Global search and relace here I come. Thanks for the response.

bobince Over a year ago

It's not just a matter of best practice: getting the wrong number of -- tokens in HTML as above (or in XML, using any -- other than -->) is invalid and can cause parsers (and even sometimes browsers) to choke. Avoid.

Shoban · Accepted Answer · 2009-04-01 12:15:35Z

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Please check this page about comments and see if it helps.

answered Apr 1, 2009 at 12:15

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Younes · Accepted Answer · 2009-04-01 13:18:53Z

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Response.Write("<!--");

rest of html?

Resonse.Write("-->");

answered Apr 1, 2009 at 13:18

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