HTML: How to hide something in the source code?

If you are working with pure HTML, it is advisable to remove your comments before publishing. A folder with the pages with comments remain on your computer, you make a copy of this folder, you remove the comments and you only upload these adjusted files to your server.

The removing of the comments can be made manually or using a suitable program such as our TextConverter.

Of course, it is easier if you are using PHP files for your website. Any comment within a PHP code section will not appear in public in the HTML code.

Here is a small example of this:

<!-- This HTML comment is visible-->
 
<p>Text 1</p>
 
<?php
  // This PHP comment remains invisible
  echo '<p>Text 2</p>';
?>

Like "Text 1", the first comment is interpreted as plain text and it is visible in the source code. Apart from this, everything inside of <?php ... ?> is interpreted as PHP code and comments within these sections are invisible to the source code.

Thus, it makes sense to always put comments exclusively within PHP code sections as far as this is not impracticable. 
2014-01-08 at 17:18