HTML comment in JS string variable

JavaScript
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Hi,

I was wondering if what I am trying to do is possible. I have a string variable and I need to put HTML comment in it like this:

var text = 'Some text. <!-- comment --> Some more text.';

The above code doesn’t work, is there any way to do this?

Thanks.

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Something like this?

var text = "Some text. <!-- comment --> Some more text.",
    myDiv = document.getElementById('myDiv');
	
myDiv.innerText = text;
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I’m curious as to whether that will actually hide the commented value, or will it also print out the <!-- [value] –>, as well?

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Sorry, my bad. The code I have actually works. It looked like it didn’t because of the color styling my text editor has. Thanks for your input on the topic.

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Hot diggity. Never, ever, once thought about putting a comment within a string. Figured that because it’s a literal, then the HTML wouldn’t process <!-- and –> as code, rather it would as a string. Just played around with it. Very interesting.