HTML, CSS, Java script comments

While working on this blog, I have realized that there are at lest three different ways to insert a comment on a HTML web page.

1) HTML comments
<!--This is a comment. Comments are not displayed in the browser-->

The tricky part was to find out how to visualize this comment on the webpage, something that is not supposed to show-up! . The solutions comes down to this table

Result	Description	Entity Name	Entity Number
	non-breaking space	 	 
<	less than	&lt;	&#60;
>	greater than	&gt;	&#62;
&	ampersand	&amp;	&#38;
¢	cent	&cent;	&#162;
£	pound	&pound;	&#163;
¥	yen	&yen;	&#165;
€	euro	&euro;	&#8364;
§	section	&sect;	&#167;
©	copyright	&copy;	&#169;
®	registered trademark	&reg;	&#174;

As per above table, the HTML code necessary to show up HTML comments is

&lt;!-- This is a comment. Comments are not displayed in the browser --&gt;

Now the problem is- How do we visualize &lt; ?
In this case we just need to write in the HTML source page:
&amp;lt;



2) CSS comment
    /*  comment here */
3) Java script comment
    // Comment here

Here you can find few examples from my HTML template page

The Jave script is commented becasue is delimited by <!--    -->
Whithin the Jave script code you can find additional comments  //
In the CSS body element, you can find CSS comments /*   */

<-- 

 <script src='http://www.mathjax.org/MathJax/MathJax.js' type='text/javascript'>  //
  //  This script call is what gets MathJax loaded and running
  //
  MathJax.Hub.Config({
    jax: ["input/TeX","output/HTML-CSS"],    // input is TeX and output is HTML-CSS format
    extensions: ["tex2jax.js"],              // use the tex2jax preprocessor
    tex2jax: {
//    inlineMath: [['$','$'],['\\(','\\)']], // uncomment to use $...$ for inline math
      processEscapes: 1                      // set to 1 to allow \$ to produce a dollar sign
    }
  });


-->

body {

/*  background:$bgcolor; */ /* old code */
  background:#d0e4fe; /* new code */
  margin:0;
  color:$textcolor;
  font:x-small Georgia Serif;
  font-size/* */:/**/small;
  font-size: /**/small;
  text-align: center;
  }

How to customize blogspot

Thanks to a very good friend of mine, Claudio Corsetti, I managed to make some changes to my blog layout

1) To make the main column wider just do this
#outer-wrapper { width: 1000px;}
#main-wrapper { width: 750px;}
#sidebar-wrapper { width: 220px;}

The main-wrapper width added to the sidebar-wrapper one should always be less than the outer-wrapper width.
I made the out-wrapper width to be 1000px taking in to account that most of the current screen are more than 1000px wide


2) To justify the text of the main wrapper
#main-wrapper {text-align:justify;}

3) If you want to add formulas using images, this setting comes useful, it controls their vertical align

.post img, table.tr-caption-container {
vertical-align: -50%;
}

Note that for this blog I will not be using images for formulas but the MathML standard.

4) To make the main column background-colour different from the main page one, we need to change the css body element

With this instruction I change page background color
body { background: #d0e4fe; }

5) the code here makes the outer-wrapper colour adjustable through the custom Layout web interface
#outer-wrapper { background:$bgcolor;}

 
CSS Excerpt
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

body {
background:$bgcolor;
background:#d0e4fe;
margin:0;
color:$textcolor;
font:x-small Georgia Serif;
font-size/* */:/**/small;
font-size: /**/small;
text-align: center;
}

#outer-wrapper {

  background:$bgcolor; 
  width: 1000px;
  margin:0 auto;
  padding:10px;
  text-align:$startSide;
  font: $bodyfont;

  }

#main-wrapper {
width: 750px;
float: $startSide;
word-wrap: break-word; /* fix for long text breaking sidebar float in IE */
overflow: hidden; /* fix for long non-text content breaking IE sidebar float */
text-align:justify;
}

#sidebar-wrapper {
width: 220px;
float: $endSide;
word-wrap: break-word; /* fix for long text breaking sidebar float in IE */
overflow: hidden; /* fix for long non-text content breaking IE sidebar float */
}


.post img, table.tr-caption-container {
padding:4px;
border:1px solid $bordercolor;
vertical-align: -50%;
}