comment out lines in CSS

cybmole · 05-09-2011, 05:01 PM

back in my conventional programming days, most languages had a way to comment out certain lines, rendering them ineffective.

e.g. in BASIC, you put REM at start of line ( i think - i'ts been a long time...)

is there any way to do something line that in css ?

say there's a font family or RGB setting that I don't think I want to keep but I don't want the hassle of copying it to another file & I know that I won't remember it once it's gone.

can I put something at start of definition line that will cause it to be ignored ?
but will keep the code to hand if I ever want to re-instate it.

susan_cassidy · 05-09-2011, 05:32 PM

Within CSS, you can use c-style comments:
/* this is a comment */
Slash asterisk to open, asterisk slash to close.

cybmole · 05-10-2011, 02:10 AM

excellent thanks - using it already.

pity it's not a start of line only tweak, as writing a regex to wrap those character pairs around , say , every font-family definiion will be a challenge to compose - LOTS of escape characters!

Perkin · 05-10-2011, 06:54 AM

cybmole, I haven't tested, but you may be able to search for

Quote:

(font-family.*)(?=\n)

Replace with

Quote:

\* \1 *\

regex - minimal matching

05-09-2011, 05:01 PM	#1
cybmole Wizard Posts: 3,720 Karma: 1759970 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: none	comment out lines in CSS back in my conventional programming days, most languages had a way to comment out certain lines, rendering them ineffective. e.g. in BASIC, you put REM at start of line ( i think - i'ts been a long time...) is there any way to do something line that in css ? say there's a font family or RGB setting that I don't think I want to keep but I don't want the hassle of copying it to another file & I know that I won't remember it once it's gone. can I put something at start of definition line that will cause it to be ignored ? but will keep the code to hand if I ever want to re-instate it.

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05-09-2011, 05:32 PM	#2
susan_cassidy Wizard Posts: 2,251 Karma: 3720310 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: USA Device: Kindle, iPad (not used much for reading)	Within CSS, you can use c-style comments: /* this is a comment */ Slash asterisk to open, asterisk slash to close.

05-10-2011, 02:10 AM	#3
cybmole Wizard Posts: 3,720 Karma: 1759970 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: none	excellent thanks - using it already. pity it's not a start of line only tweak, as writing a regex to wrap those character pairs around , say , every font-family definiion will be a challenge to compose - LOTS of escape characters!

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