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Asked: 2026-05-16T16:35:22+00:00

This sounds a bit like a trivia question, but it would help me figure

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This sounds a bit like a trivia question, but it would help me figure out my options solving an actual problem. Is there an HTML tag that can be used anywhere in the DOM? (something to be used as a placeholder) An HTML5 tag would be ok. No XHTML unfortunately.

I’ve thought about it for a bit, the only tag I can come up with is <script/>. Otherwise, I guess that <span/> would work almost(?) anywhere in <body/> and <meta/> would work in <head/>. Any other idea? I haven’t thoroughly checked HTML5, so perhaps I’m missing a newer addition.

Also, please don’t overthink this and try to reverse-engineer my question. Using a tag as placeholder is one of many different options that I’m examining, that’s all. Thanks!

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  1. Editorial Team

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    Comments cannot be retrieved using DOM’s getElementsByTagName(). However, it is possible to select them in XPath using the node test comment(), e.g. //comment() would select all the comments in the document.

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