Question

WordPress style sheet comments have “/* =” before the name of the comment. Why isnt it just /* and why does it have “=” after it? Does it help to find comments easily or is it there for nothing?

Answer 1

Even though I would highly recommend against using w3schools.com, they do a good job explaining this question:

CSS Comments

Comments are used to explain your code, and may help you when you edit the source code at a later date. Comments are ignored by browsers.

A CSS comment begins with “/*“, and ends with “*/“, like this:

/*This is a comment*/
p
{
text-align:center;
/*This is another comment*/
color:black;
font-family:arial;
}

Source

Regarding the =, it may be used to specify a point in the comment that is used for replacing or formatting later.

Update 1

Found this regarding the = sign.

Adding a marker to a comment block makes it more searchable. This is
called flagged comment block. For example:

/*= Header
 * - description -
 */

In this case, the flag used is the equal sign (=). By using it as a
search string in your editor, you can actually navigate through all
your sections of your CSS file.

However, a simple marker like an equal sign may be inappropriate when
you want to be more specific. In this case, you can add an identifier
to the flag:

/*=head Header
 * - description -
 */

Now you can search for =head in your editor. This is called a labeled
flagged comment block.