I want to make the (<!-- … -->) comments from Obsidian Spaced Reptition plugin invisible by changing them to %% comments

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What I’m trying to do

I’m using this plugin: github. com/st3v3nmw/obsidian-spaced-repetition (This is broken because I’m not allowed to insert links).
I really like the flashcard feature but it generates a comment underneath my text that I find distracting, that looks like this:

I want to change the comment style so that it encodes to use %% instead of ()

Things I have tried

Using this post: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/css-differentiate-between-obsidian-and-html-comments/71893/5 I've made %% comments invisible, which has worked, using this code:

.is-live-preview .cm-line:not(.cm-active):has(.cm-comment-start, .cm-comment-end) * {
  visibility: hidden;
}

But now I want to change the plugin to write its comments as %%. I tried looking through the 'data.json', 'styles' and 'manifest.json', for the plugin, for the key words they used '.cm-comment' but it came up with nothing. I have no idea how coding works but I'm guessing it's written as something else? I'd appreciate if someone could explain how to change this.
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This is what the comments look like:

<!- -SR:!2026-01-08,3,252!2026-01-08,3,252!2026-01-08,3,252
-->

(It didn’t show up in the original post, and I can’t edit it.)

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Use this CSS to hide html comments

.is-live-preview .cm-line:not(.cm-active):has(.cm-comment) * {
  visibility: hidden;
}
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Hi,

I appreciate the answer, but that wasn’t what I was asking. The instructions to make all comments invisible was in the original post I referred to:

What I’m asking is to change the coding of the Obsidian Space Repetition plugin to encode its comments with the (%%) style instead of the (<!-) style, because I already have the CSS snippet for making (%%) comments invisible. I still want to be able to see (<!-) comments. (Either that, or to make (<!-) comments invisible, while the (%%) remains visible). I want to be able to use one sort of comment, while whichever the plugin uses (which is currently (<!-)), is invisible, so that the plugin’s comments don’t visually populate my notes.

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I’d put in a request on the Obsidian Space Repetition’s GitHub page (if there isn’t one already).

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Okay, I’ll do that. Thank you.

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