can anyone explain why a site would use this <!--<BR>-->

can anyone explain why a site would use this in their page

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Presumably it is hiding the <BR> from ... ???

TIA

John

John D wrote:

can anyone explain why a site would use this in their page

!--<BR>--

Presumably it is hiding the <BR> from ... ???

This is a comment. The reason to use a comment is to disable content
from having any effect at all (to search engines, browsers, whatever).
An author might want to remind herself that this <br> should be used
later on, but you never know.

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In article <bj6tme$afe$1 (AT) newsreader (DOT) mailgate.org> in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets, John D
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can anyone explain why a site would use this in their page

!--<BR>--

Presumably it is hiding the <BR> from ... ???

Sometimes people comment out some coding as a trial to see how they
like the result, then never get around to actually deleting it. If
it's short, there's no real problem; if it's long it will of course
make the page load slower.

Why not e-mail the page author and ask?

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