# Comments
Template comments are surrounded by asterisks, and that is surrounded by
the [delimiter](../../programmers/api-variables/variable-left-delimiter.md) tags like so:
## Examples
```smarty
{* this is a comment *}
```
Smarty comments are NOT displayed in the final output of the template,
unlike ``. These are useful for making internal
notes in the templates which no one will see ;-)
```smarty
{* I am a Smarty comment, I don't exist in the compiled output *}
{$title}
{* another single line smarty comment *}
{* this multiline smarty
comment is
not sent to browser
*}
{*********************************************************
Multi line comment block with credits block
@ author: bg@example.com
@ maintainer: support@example.com
@ para: var that sets block style
@ css: the style output
**********************************************************}
{* The header file with the main logo and stuff *}
{include file='header.tpl'}
{* Dev note: the $includeFile var is assigned in foo.php script *}
{include file=$includeFile}
{* this