How to comment within an HTML attribute?

Question

The final (closing) angle bracket in the code below is not interpreted as closing the <input> element:

<input type='text' name='name' <!-- id='name' -->>

I thought this was a valid way to comment out this attribute but Google Chrome, Firefox and Notepad++ (color coding) all suggest that this is not the way to go.

I used CTRL+Shift+Q in Notepad++ to do this.

Then what is the proper way to comment out this <id> attribute?

Answer 1

I usually just put _x at the end of the attribute name. Then the attribute is ignored because it's unknown. So if I wanted to comment out the id attribute from this element:

<input type="text" name="name" id="name">

I would change it to this:

<input type="text" name="name" id_x="name">

This also has the advantage of being able to search for "_x=" to find all commented attributes.