Comments
The Comments tool![[white speech balloon]](balloon-white.png "This icon is part of the tutorial")
shows the number of HTML comments on the current page.
It will not currently show comments in JavaScript or sub-frames.
If any of the comments contain 'suspicious' strings then an exclamation mark will be added to the icon:
![[white speech balloon with exclamation mark]](balloon-white-exclamation.png "This icon is part of the tutorial")
The suspicious strings are case insensitive and are currently hardcoded to:
TODO, FIXME, BUG, XXX, QUERY, DB, ADMIN, USER, PASSWORD, PWORD, PWD, SELECT
The intention is for these to be configurable from within the HUD in a future release.
If you click on the 'Comments' tool then the icon will change to
![[yellow speech balloon]](balloon.png "This icon is part of the tutorial")
or ![[yellow speech balloon with exclamation mark]](balloon-yellow-exclamation.png "This icon is part of the tutorial")
and the same icon will be shown on the target page everywhere there is an HTML comment.
Hovering over these icons will show the related comment and clicking on them will copy the comment to the clipboard.
Showing comments may well mess up the formatting of the target page, and in some cases may break functionality if any scripts rely on the DOM structure not changing. Clicking on the 'Comment' tool again will return the page to its original state.
Unlike many of the other tools, the Comments tool is tab specific, so turning it on or off on one tab will not affect the other tabs.
The Comments tool is not shown by default so you will need to add it to a panel as described in the Tools Configuration tutorial page.