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 --> and are useful for making internal notes in the templates. {* I am a Smarty comment, I don't exist in the compiled output *} {* 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 **********************************************************} {* include the header file *} {include file='header.tpl'} {* Dev note: the $includeFile is assigned in foo.php script *} {include file=$includeFile} {* this block is redundant *} {* {html_options options=$vals selected=$selected_id} *} {* for cvs/svn users - here's the tag for the template *} {* $Id$ *} ]]>