need help understanding a line of code

keystone · #1 05-01-2014, 10:20 AM

I was validating my code with w3c validator and it pops up this line.

Code:

<div class="details" style="margin-left: 1px <-- 300px -- >;">

I'm not sure what it means, I have not seen the extra

Quote:

<-- 300px -- >

before, what does it do?

totaltec · #2 05-01-2014, 10:40 AM

<-- 300px -- > is probably doing nothing. It is commented out using html comments, and done improperly at that.

It should be <!-- 300px -- >

Sorry for the w3fools link:
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_comment.asp

I would just remove the offending little bugger.

keystone · #3 05-01-2014, 10:42 AM

I wondered if that was the case. I didn't want to delete it without checking first.

qualiteam · #4 05-05-2014, 09:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by totaltec

It is commented out using html comments, and done improperly at that.

It should be <!-- 300px -- >

It is inside the style attribute, so I believe the correct way to comment this is /* 300px */.

Quote:

I would just remove the offending little bugger.

I would do the same, unless there is a chance you will revert the change (from 300px to 1px margin) back