Title: Editor – HTML – Not ignoring programmer code comments
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Editor – HTML – Not ignoring programmer code comments

 *  Resolved [jbirkes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbirkes/)
 * (@jbirkes)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editor-html-not-ignoring-programmer-code-comments/)
 * I have a strange problem when using the appearance > themes > editor function.
 * Normal html tags to ignore programming comments don’t seem to be recognized (
   e.g. // or /* … */ )when I modify and existing file. However, pre-existing //
   or /* tags are recognized. The tags are read as text. For example:
 * Print this text
    //Ignore this text Print this too
 * Appears on the blog as:
    Print this text//ignore this textPrint this text
 * I thought this was due to my text editor leaving residue, so I made the changes
   directly through the WP editor…no copying. The problem remained. Any ideas?
 * Below is a sample of actual code where the problem occurs (// Changed the name
   of the copyright holder):
 * </div>
    <div id=”footer”> <?php wp_footer(); ?> <div> © <?php echo date(‘Y’);?
   > // Changed the name of the copyright holder MB&A LLC | Powered by [WordPress](http://wordpress.org/)
   | [BranfordMagazine theme](http://www.wp-themes.der-prinz.com/magazine/) by [Michael Oeser.
 * THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
 * – Jeff

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 *  [captal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/captal/)
 * (@captal)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editor-html-not-ignoring-programmer-code-comments/#post-1085900)
 * How was this issue resolved? I’m having the same problem in 3.0beta2

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 * Last reply from: [captal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/captal/)
 * Last activity: [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editor-html-not-ignoring-programmer-code-comments/#post-1085900)
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