How to comment out stuff in Markdown on GitHub?

markdown-comments.md

Comments in GitHub flavour of Markdown

As answers to this Stack Overflow question reveal, using <!--- and ---> or <!-- and --> works (view source by clicking "Raw"):

Inline comments

How about commenting out <!--- just ---> a part of one line?

If you know of a way, please show me how by cloning this Gist, or commenting below!

Update 2019

As several commenters pointed out, for inline commenting <!-- a normal html comment --> now works.

You can't see this:

Btw, wow, I created this gist in 2014 and only now became aware of the discussion and that it's the top Google hit for markdown comments github. 👍

Github comments aka common markdown most portable solution according to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4823468/comments-in-markdown

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Syntax <!--- just ---> is for regular html comments.

Hopefully we get eventually a better standard including strict conforming implementations instead of the markdown mess.