comment not including everything

ketanco

Hello,
This line of code is in header.php file:

<li class="first <? if(is_home()) echo 'current_page_item'; ?>"><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/">Home</a></li>

I was trying to put the whole thing in a comment, so that I could test the file without this code being there. So I did this:

<!--
<li class="first <? if(is_home()) echo 'current_page_item'; ?>"><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/">Home</a></li>
-->

However, it is not includig eveything within the comment. Why is that? I mean I thought everything with the  would be totally omitted as a comment. But it is not. Why?

Weedpacket

First thing to do is look at the generated HTML and verify that it is correct.