Commenting out ASP.NET Server Controls

Monday, December 13, 2004 1:07 PM Filed under:

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Commenting out ASP.NET Server Controls

I guess I don't need to do this frequent enough to remember this because I always seem to forget. To comment out a server control from your aspx page you cannot use . Obviously, this is a server control, so you use server side comments:

<%-- <asp:Button runat=server id=button1></asp:Button> --%>

Comments

Joe Gakenheimer 8/16/2005 5:00 AM

Same here, I forget how to do it, yet you guys were the only place on the net that I found with this info.
Gray Raven 3/29/2006 9:10 AM

I'm curious, though. What if it's a complex control that has DataBinder.Eval statements in it (which use the '<%' syntax )??
Aron 7/13/2006 7:34 AM

The %> does actually stop the comment. You can put a space between the % and the > and that makes it not notice the tag, but that is sorta a bummer. I think it should just keep on trucking till it sees --%> not just "%>".
I guess "you can't always get what you want."
Adam 12/6/2006 4:59 PM

Thanks for putting this up on the net. Chalk up another "duh" moment for me. Found you via Google.