Nested Comments

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Posted by ErichSteinboeck on 21 Mar 2009 11:48, last edited by James Kanjo on 09 May 2010 05:55

When editing Wikidot pages it is sometimes convenient to remove parts of a page by commenting it (i. e. surrounding it with Wikidot comment tags [!-- and --]) instead of deleting it.

Commenting a part of a page with Wikidot comments only works as long as the part to be commented does not itself contain comments. Wikidot comments do not support nested comments — the first end comment tag (--]) that's inside the part to be commented would prematurely end the surrounding comment.

Here is a way how to comment a part of page with almost any¹ content.

How it Works

Instead of using simple Wikidot comment tags ([!-- and --]) use

as a comment start

[!--
[[code]]

and as a comment end

[[/code]]
--]

Examples

What you type …	What you get …
Code before commented section [!-- [[code]] A section of ``code'' containing @@tags@@, //formatting// and a [!-- nested --] comment [[/code]] --] Code after commented section	Code before commented section Code after commented section