Comments Template comments are surrounded by asterisks, and that is surrounded by the delimiter tags like so: {* this is a comment *} Smarty comments are NOT displayed in the final output of the template, unlike <!-- HTML comments --> They are useful for making internal notes in the templates. Comments {* this multiline comment is not sent to browser *} {* include the header file here *} {include file="header.tpl"} {* Dev note: $includeFile is assigned foo.php script *} {include file=$includeFile} {include file=#includeFile#} {* display dropdown lists *} ]]>