2.11. COMMENTS
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can contain th elements which correspond to heading data. The cellspacing
attribute is used to specify how much space should appear between the cells of
each table. The cellpadding attribute specifies how much space should appear
within a cell around the content of that cell.
2.11
Comments
Comments are pieces of text that are, for the most part
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, ignored by the browser.
They are used to provide information to the person maintaining the web page,
not the person viewing it. You add comments to an HTML page using the
following syntax:
comment goes here
can include any text, except
cannot have two consecutive dashes ( )
as that indicates the end of the comment
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Note that the dashes delimit the comment part of the tag. The tag's name
is ! and it has not close tag. Also, spaces are forbidden between the ! and
the .
2.12
Frames
Frames provide a mechanism for combining several webpages into a single web
page.
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The only exception is in the