How do I comment out multiple lines with HTML and PHP code in it?

Question

I want to comment out the whole code below. What would be the easiest way to do it without using multiple comments? Thanks in advance.

<nav id="site-navigation" class="main-navigation" role="navigation">
    <h3 class="menu-toggle"><?php _e( 'Menu', 'twentytwelve' ); ?></h3>
    <a class="assistive-text" href="#content" title="<?php esc_attr_e( 'Skip to content', 'twentytwelve' ); ?>"><?php _e( 'Skip to content', 'twentytwelve' ); ?></a>
    <?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'primary', 'menu_class' => 'nav-menu' ) ); ?>
</nav><!-- #site-navigation -->

Solution 1

just surround the entire block with php comments like this:

<?php /*
<nav id="site-navigation" class="main-navigation" role="navigation">
    <h3 class="menu-toggle"><?php _e( 'Menu', 'twentytwelve' ); ?></h3>
    <a class="assistive-text" href="#content" title="<?php esc_attr_e( 'Skip to content', 'twentytwelve' ); ?>"><?php _e( 'Skip to content', 'twentytwelve' ); ?></a>
    <?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'primary', 'menu_class' => 'nav-menu' ) ); ?>
</nav><!-- #site-navigation -->
*/?>

Solution 2

<!-- <nav id="site-navigation" class="main-navigation" role="navigation">
<h3 class="menu-toggle"><?php _e( 'Menu', 'twentytwelve' ); ?></h3>
<a class="assistive-text" href="#content" title="<?php esc_attr_e( 'Skip to content', 'twentytwelve' ); ?>"><?php _e( 'Skip to content', 'twentytwelve' ); ?></a>
<?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'primary', 'menu_class' => 'nav-menu' ) ); ?>
</nav> -->

Should suffice. They are multiline comments.

This should help: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5781375/comment-out-html-and-php-together

Comments

[crush]

The PHP commands would still run.

[crush]

Your link shows that this question is a duplicate.

[crush]

This is the answer apparently, but it comes from the link that Flaxbeard posted below...this question is a duplicate.

[Admin]

Wow. Good one. Thanks