html comment in mozilla

[cools_sonu]

Hello

My problem is that firefox is behaving weirdly in my system. I'm trying to create any page, and when ever I put an html comment it doesn't show it properly and then I'm not getting the proper result in firefox.

How can I solve this issue ?

Well here is the simple html comment which is being converted into firefox like:

This tag is being

<!---- End of main div ---->

like
>!----------- End of main div ------>

or some times like

<!--------- End of main div ---------&gt;

And after that all the page elements vanishes away..

How can I solve this issue ?

[RyanReese]

We would need to see a site wehre this is happening at . Just that little snippet there isn't going to give us enough to create a test case .

[cools_sonu]

Thanx for the reply Ryan

Well I'm testing on my pc only, So can't post any link to it.

But I can show u my full code. I'm getting results in all browser even in IE, but not in firefox

[RyanReese]

Full code should work fine, make sure when you post the code, we can reproduce the issue on our end

[xhtmlcoder]

You CANNOT legally have that amount of conjoined dashes (without white-space) after the first 2, i.e. -- in a HTML Comment the proper syntax is <!-- .... --> that is probably why it is screwing up.

White space is not permitted between the markup declaration open delimiter("<!")
and the comment open delimiter ("--"), but is permitted between the comment close
delimiter ("--") and the markup declaration close delimiter (">"). A common error is to
include a string of hyphens ("---") within a comment. Authors should avoid putting
two or more adjacent hyphens inside comments.

I am assuming you meant just the comments were doing this and not where you were putting them?

[AutisticCuckoo]

As xhtmlcoder says, the problem is your hyphens inside the comment. Any pair of hypens after <!-- will terminate (or restart) the comment; it doesn't stop at --> as many believe.

<!-- comment -- not comment -- comment again -->

So you have an empty comment followed by a the text "End of main div ---->".

Never use more than one hyphen at a time inside an SGML comment.

[Blake Tallos]

It might have to deal with IE'S comment bug. http://www.positioniseverything.net/...haracters.html

It depends, I would have to see the document.

[RyanReese]

It might have to deal with IE'S comment bug. http://www.positioniseverything.net/...haracters.html

It depends, I would have to see the document.

I doubt it, he said IE was fine and there has been no mention of IE being outa whack .