vbscript - Server-side comments: What's the equivalent of <%-- --%> in ASP Classic?

Question

What's the equivalent of <%-- --%> in ASP Classic?

I have to modify a legacy ASP application and I'd like to comment out a block of HTML:

<td>
    some table cell I'd like to comment out, including
    some <%= inlineServerSideVBScriptExpressions() %>
</td>

Wrapping everything in <%-- ... --%>, as I'd do in ASP.NET, doesn't work and results in the compilation error "Expected statement". HTML comments <!-- ... --> are not an option either, since the inline ASP expressions would get evaluated and fail.

Answer 1

Try this:-

<!-- METADATA  
  Your comments here
-->

The METADATA indicates to the ASP processor that this is a comment that does not need to be sent to the client.