How to comment out CSS statement with INNER comment?

[pstein]

Assume I have in an *.css file a CSS statement similar to the following:

blahbla {  font-size: 20px !important;
           line-height: 20px !important;   /* added in August 2021 */
           font-family: Verdana !important; }

As you can see it contains a comment

Now I want to comment out the whole CSS statement (without removing the inner comment!).

The following does not work:

/*
blahbla {  font-size: 20px !important;
           line-height: 20px !important;   /* added in August 2021 */
           font-family: Verdana !important; }
*/

....since the closing comment tag of the inner comment closes the outer comment as well.

How else can I comment out a CSS statement ignoring possible inner comments?

[Ingolme]

There is no way to do it, but if your code editor is syntax highlighted then it should not take longer than a minute to see where all the inner comments are interfering and fix them.

A possible workaround is to wrap the code in a media query which will never be satisfied, like this:

media  (max-width:1px) {

It has the side effect that code minifiers will not remove it in the way they remove comments.