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

Natalia P.
Natalia P.
353 Points
Posted by Natalia P.
Natalia P.
353 Points

css comments and /* insider jokes */

do any of you geeks know if the css comments are used for making commentary used to communicate to other web developers who might take a peek at the source code?

maybe they're leaving a comment as a joke, or maybe to communicate actually relevant information?

2 Answers

eck
eck
43,038 Points

I have not seen anything memorable in css comments as far as jokes or "easter eggs" go, but it is not unheard of to see things like ascii art placed within html source.

Natalia P.
Natalia P.
353 Points
Natalia P.
Natalia P.
353 Points

cool, I like the phrase "easter eggs" used in this context.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Comments are used for relevant information. If you were looking through a template or some other code meant to be modified then highly maintainable code should include relevant comments.

You won't always see them on websites by using the view source option in your browser.

The reason for this is because CSS and JavaScript should be minified to remove unnecessary whitespace and comments. On a website with tens of thoundsands of lines of CSS and hundreds of thousands of hits by minifing your code you get a significant amount of bandwidth savings.