<!-- JavaScript:Basics code snippet 1. --> <!-- Writing text directly to the page. --> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <!-- Code source: http://www.justfigures.co.uk/ --> <!-- A resource for web developers using XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP --> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>View code snippet page</title> </head> <body> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"> /* this a multi-line comment that can explain that the line of code below is using 'dot notation' to apply the 'write' method to the 'document' object */ document.write("Hello World.") // this is a single-line comment </script> </body> </html>