---
title: Comment
slug: Web/API/Comment
tags:
  - API
  - DOM
  - NeedsTranslation
  - Reference
  - TopicStub
translation_of: Web/API/Comment
---
<div>{{ ApiRef("DOM") }}</div>

<p><span class="seoSummary">The <code><strong>Comment</strong></code> interface represents textual notations within markup; although it is generally not visually shown, such comments are available to be read in the source view.</span> Comments are represented in HTML and XML as content between '<code>&lt;!--</code>' and '<code>--&gt;</code>'. In XML, the character sequence '<code>--</code>' cannot be used within a comment.</p>

<p>{{InheritanceDiagram}}</p>

<h2 id="Properties">Properties</h2>

<p><em>This interface has no specific property, but inherits those of its parent, {{domxref("CharacterData")}}, and indirectly those of {{domxref("Node")}}.</em></p>

<h2 id="Constructor">Constructor</h2>

<dl>
 <dt>{{ domxref("Comment.Comment()", "Comment()") }} {{experimental_inline}}</dt>
 <dd>Returns a <code>Comment</code> object with the parameter as its textual content.</dd>
</dl>

<h2 id="Methods">Methods</h2>

<p><em>This interface has no specific method, but inherits those of its parent, {{domxref("CharacterData")}}, and indirectly those of {{domxref("Node")}}.</em></p>

<h2 id="Specification" name="Specification">Specifications</h2>

<table class="standard-table">
 <tbody>
  <tr>
   <th scope="col">Specification</th>
   <th scope="col">Status</th>
   <th scope="col">Comment</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td>{{SpecName('DOM WHATWG', '#comment', 'Comment')}}</td>
   <td>{{Spec2('DOM WHATWG')}}</td>
   <td>Added the constructor.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td>{{SpecName('DOM3 Core', 'core.html#ID-1728279322', 'Comment')}}</td>
   <td>{{Spec2('DOM3 Core')}}</td>
   <td>No change from {{SpecName('DOM2 Core')}}</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td>{{SpecName('DOM2 Core', 'core.html#ID-1728279322', 'Comment')}}</td>
   <td>{{Spec2('DOM2 Core')}}</td>
   <td>No change from {{SpecName('DOM1')}}</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td>{{SpecName('DOM1', 'level-one-core.html#ID-1728279322', 'Comment')}}</td>
   <td>{{Spec2('DOM1')}}</td>
   <td>Initial definition</td>
  </tr>
 </tbody>
</table>

<h2 id="Browser_compatibility">Browser compatibility</h2>



<p>{{Compat("api.Comment")}}</p>

<h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>

<ul>
 <li><a href="/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document_Object_Model" title="/en-US/docs/DOM/DOM_Reference">The DOM interfaces index</a></li>
</ul>