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 --> these are useful for making internal notes in the templates which no one will see;-). {* another single line smarty comment *} {* this multiline smarty comment is not sent to browser *} {********************************************************* Multi line comment block with credits block @ author: bg@example.com @ maintainer: support@example.com @ para: var that sets block style @ css: the style output **********************************************************} {* The header file with the main logo and stuff *} {include file='header.tpl'} {* Dev note: the $includeFile var is assigned in foo.php script *} {include file=$includeFile} {* this block is redundant *} {* {html_options options=$vals selected=$selected_id} *} {* cvs tag for a template, below the 36 SHOULD be an american currency . however its converted in cvs.. *} {* $Id: Exp $ *} {* $Id: *} ]]>