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CSS How to Make a Website Customizing Colors and Fonts Organize CSS with Comments

Posted by Thomas Carson
Thomas Carson
608 Points

Commenting section is confusing to follow

Nick starts out saying that comments are easy, which they are.

  1. He adds some preliminary comments..OK
  2. Then he changes his mind and rearranges... OK
  3. Then he adds some more comments.. OK
  4. Then he changes his mind again & rearranges again...Huh??
  5. Then he says it is OK to add your own unique comments...OK
  6. Then he says that adding your own comments may goof up the web page because of the cascading nature of CSS...Why is he repeating this warning??

At the end of the section, I spend a hugh amount of time to make my MAIN.CSS follow Nick's example. However, I don't feel confident about the outcome. It would be better if Nick left out the "do over" sections.

1 Answer

Vlatko .
Vlatko .
2,526 Points
Vlatko .
Vlatko .
2,526 Points

Honestly, if you're able to understand the code and how it works, comments are unnecessary. The only time I would use comments would be if I had to explain something in the code, and only if I were handing it over to another developer who would be looking at it.