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**Allan87** · 06-30-2008, 11:51 AM

ï»¿I have these characters appearing at the top of my page, they're not in the code so im not sure what I should be changing.

**rolda hayes** · 06-30-2008, 12:11 PM

can we see your code anyway?

**Allan87** · 06-30-2008, 12:16 PM

http://www.alco-owl.co.uk/index.php

**rolda hayes** · 06-30-2008, 12:30 PM

I cant see any characters appearing? where abouts are they?

BTW, is this site yours? This has to be one of the BEST ideas I've seen in a while!
Shame you don't live nearer to me, you would have had a customer on Saturday Night!

**rolda hayes** · 06-30-2008, 12:32 PM

Hmmm, it appears to be to do with your doctype which reads:

Code:

ï»¿<!doctype HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 1.0 Transitional//EN">

**Allan87** · 06-30-2008, 12:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rolda hayes

Hmmm, it appears to be to do with your doctype which reads:

Code:

ï»¿<!doctype HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 1.0 Transitional//EN">

It appears in the browser but here's the code;

Code:

<!doctype HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 1.0 Transitional//EN">
            
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="Keywords" content="bristol alcohol delivery night">
<title>Alco-Owl : Bristol's late night alcohol delivery service</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/styles/main.css">
<link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
</head>

**rolda hayes** · 06-30-2008, 02:22 PM

This may be way off, but try using

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

**Allan87** · 06-30-2008, 02:31 PM

Alas not, thanks for your input nonetheless.

**LadynRed** · 06-30-2008, 02:39 PM

I've seen that before, Visual Studio has a habit of putting those same funky characters in pages you create using it. What are you using to build the page ?

**Allan87** · 06-30-2008, 02:52 PM

I'm viewing it in microsoft expression but I can't see those characters when using an ftp text editor or notepad either.

**LadynRed** · 06-30-2008, 03:20 PM

Aahh ha.. then it seems it's a MS thing (why am I NOT surprised ?)

**stoot98** · 06-30-2008, 04:16 PM

aye, just before the doctype when you view entire source but just inside the <body> tag when you view selection source... weird...

**Dan Schulz** · 01:59 AM

Welcome to the BOM (Byte Order Mark). Read the forum post I linked to below for more information.

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/show...p?t=428205#q10

**ajcones** · 07-04-2008, 03:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rolda hayes

Hmmm, it appears to be to do with your doctype which reads:

Code:

ï»¿<!doctype HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 1.0 Transitional//EN">

I also checked his site but I didn't see any special characters like that.

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