Replace unnecessary PHP comment with HTML comment in customize.php

[tewariharish]

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/65497

In src/wp-admin/customize.php (around line 227 and 266), there is a PHP opening tag used solely for an inline comment:

Since no PHP code is being executed, the PHP tag is unnecessary. This can be replaced with an HTML comment to improve code readability and maintainability.

WordPress coding standards generally prefer avoiding unnecessary PHP tags when no PHP code is being executed

Trac ticket:

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Refactoring
  • Updated Customizer panel structure rendering for improved code organization.

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• src/wp-admin/customize.php

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

In src/wp-admin/customize.php, two placeholder <ul> elements (customize-outer-pane-parent and customize-pane-parent) are changed so their embedded comments use plain HTML comment syntax instead of PHP inline comment tags, with no behavioral change.

Changes

Customizer Placeholder Comment Syntax

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Replace PHP comments with HTML comments in ul placeholders src/wp-admin/customize.php	The customize-outer-pane-parent (line 227) and customize-pane-parent (line 266) placeholder <ul> elements now embed <!-- ... --> HTML comments instead of <?php // ... ?> PHP comment tags.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 1 (Trivial) | ⏱️ ~2 minutes

Poem

A rabbit hopped through markup land,
And swapped PHP for HTML sand.
No more <?php in the tag's embrace,
Just <!-- comments, neat and in place.
🐇 Clean code, hooray!

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately describes the main change: replacing PHP comments with HTML comments in customize.php file.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description includes the Trac ticket link, explains the rationale for the changes, and cites WordPress coding standards, but the AI disclosure section is left as a template comment without actual disclosure.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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