Title: <!–
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# <!–

 *  Resolved [danwalter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danwalter/)
 * (@danwalter)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lt/)
 * What does this mean?

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lt/#post-492767)
 * That’s the beginning of the comment tag:
    [http://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/chap06.shtml](http://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/chap06.shtml)
 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lt/#post-492768)
 * It’s the begining tag of a “comment” – browsers won’t display commmented html/
   php strings, etc. The end tag looks like this: `-->` and surrounding a string
   with the two of them will cause the browser to ignore it (generally). Sometimes
   php is commented like this: `/*` `*/`.
 *  Thread Starter [danwalter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danwalter/)
 * (@danwalter)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lt/#post-493094)
 * Thanks

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [danwalter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danwalter/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lt/#post-493094)
 * Status: resolved

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