diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 75a10e1f..6dd1ba1a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 ## master (unreleased)
 
 * Fix `Checkstyle` output format to handle lints with no associated linter
+* Ignore comments in `SpaceBeforeScript` linter
 
 ## 0.18.1
 
diff --git a/lib/haml_lint/linter/space_before_script.rb b/lib/haml_lint/linter/space_before_script.rb
index 85d011bd..1c285308 100644
--- a/lib/haml_lint/linter/space_before_script.rb
+++ b/lib/haml_lint/linter/space_before_script.rb
@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@ class Linter::SpaceBeforeScript < Linter
 
     MESSAGE_FORMAT = 'The %s symbol should have one space separating it from code'.freeze
 
-    def visit_tag(node) # rubocop:disable Metrics/CyclomaticComplexity
+    ALLOWED_SEPARATORS = [' ', '#'].freeze
+
+    def visit_tag(node) # rubocop:disable Metrics/AbcSize, Metrics/CyclomaticComplexity, Metrics/LineLength, Metrics/PerceivedComplexity
       # If this tag has inline script
       return unless node.contains_script?
 
@@ -26,6 +28,8 @@ def visit_tag(node) # rubocop:disable Metrics/CyclomaticComplexity
         end
       end
 
+      return if tag_with_text[index] == '#' # Ignore code comments
+
       # Check if the character before the start of the script is a space
       # (need to do it this way as the parser strips whitespace from node)
       return unless tag_with_text[index - 1] != ' '
@@ -48,7 +52,7 @@ def visit_silent_script(node)
 
     def missing_space?(node)
       text = node.script
-      text[0] != ' ' if text
+      !ALLOWED_SEPARATORS.include?(text[0]) if text
     end
   end
 end
diff --git a/spec/haml_lint/linter/space_before_script_spec.rb b/spec/haml_lint/linter/space_before_script_spec.rb
index 6addbf28..fdbfe471 100644
--- a/spec/haml_lint/linter/space_before_script_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/haml_lint/linter/space_before_script_spec.rb
@@ -51,6 +51,15 @@
     HAML
 
     it { should report_lint line: 2 }
+
+    context 'and is a comment' do
+      let(:haml) { <<-HAML }
+        %p=# A comment
+        %p=#A comment
+      HAML
+
+      it { should_not report_lint }
+    end
   end
 
   context 'when inline script has a separating space' do