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conditional comment

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.57 in modern English

Syllables
con-di-tion-al -com-ment
IPA
27
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A comment in source code that can be interpreted as a directive by some systems, but is ignored by those others that are not aware of the convention; formerly used to overcome compatibility issues between web browsers.

Inflected Forms

conditional comments (plural)

Questions

What does conditional comment mean?
A comment in source code that can be interpreted as a directive by some systems, but is ignored by those others that are not aware of the convention; formerly used to overcome compatibility issues between web browsers.

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