Whats “/* =SomeText” in css comments

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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.

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2. Equals signs are never used in CSS so it’s a good marker to provide quick searching.

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3. I think it’s mostly likely there to just help identify that comment (don’t know why you would need to, common sense says to place the comment where next to the code it’s referring to)

   all you need is just /*blah, blah, blah*/

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