Replace unnecessary PHP comment with HTML comment in wp-admin/customize.php

[harishtewari]

In src/wp-admin/customize.php (around line 227 and 266), there is a PHP opening tag used solely for an inline comment:

<ul class="customize-pane-parent"><?php // Panels and sections are managed here via JavaScript ?></ul>

Since no PHP code is being executed, the PHP tag is unnecessary. This can be replaced with an HTML comment to improve code readability and maintainability.
WordPress coding standards generally prefer avoiding unnecessary PHP tags when no PHP code is being executed

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/65497

In src/wp-admin/customize.php (around line 227 and 266), there is a PHP opening tag used solely for an inline comment:

<ul class="customize-pane-parent"><?php Panels and sections are managed here via JavaScript ?></ul>

Since no PHP code is being executed, the PHP tag is unnecessary. This can be replaced with an HTML comment to improve code readability and maintainability.

WordPress coding standards generally prefer avoiding unnecessary PHP tags when no PHP code is being executed

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[sabernhardt]

These comments were committed in r30102 and r41626.

[dmsnell]

@harishtewari thanks for the proposal. it’s worth pointing out that this change modifies the rendered page and leaves what was previously a private comment in the public view.

did you find that the PHP tag was problematic in some way, or dig up that the comments were supposed to be part of the rendered page?