diff --git a/lib/ace/mode/velocity_highlight_rules.js b/lib/ace/mode/velocity_highlight_rules.js
index 8d2510e4..2227f769 100644
--- a/lib/ace/mode/velocity_highlight_rules.js
+++ b/lib/ace/mode/velocity_highlight_rules.js
@@ -133,6 +133,10 @@ var VelocityHighlightRules = function() {
                 token : "comment.block", // closing comment
                 regex : ".*?\\*#",
                 next : "start"
+            }, {
+                token : "comment", // closing HTML comment
+                regex : ".*?-->",
+                next : "start"
             }, {
                 token : "comment", // comment spanning whole line
                 regex : ".+"
@@ -229,4 +233,4 @@ var VelocityHighlightRules = function() {
 oop.inherits(VelocityHighlightRules, TextHighlightRules);
 
 exports.VelocityHighlightRules = VelocityHighlightRules;
-});
\ No newline at end of file
+});