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**Reckoner** · 01-05-2010, 11:24 AM

Hello,

I am very confused by a current situation on my site.

So, a client wants to make small edits to the site that I have developed for him. On the site, the files have been saved using Komposer (rather than dreamweaver) and when opened with komposer, the pages look great with all of the content in place as it should be. However, when uploading the content to the site, the page is completely blank.

It's odd however, since when you look at the source code, it's all there...

http://www.modenafinefoods.com/acetu...ting_test.html

Can anyone please lend a hand as to what might be the issue?

**chrishirst** · 01-05-2010, 11:46 AM

use root relative addressing and avoid spaces in image file names.

**LadynRed** · 04:05 PM

Actually, I believe the problem is a character set problem. When I bring your entire HTML into my editor, this symbol appears in the code:

Quote:

ï»¿

It appears at the end of your DTD statment. Visual Studio is notorious for this and it WILL prevent any page from showing anything if it's in there. What I have to do to fix that is to copy the code into a new Notepad (or any plain text editor) file, save it, then copy the plain-text code into a clean copy of the html page.

Looks like Komposer is doing something similar to VS.

**Reckoner** · 01-05-2010, 05:35 PM

Thanks for the replies.

Lady - so, in the source code, where are you seeing the ï»¿ symbol? I'm sorry but when I bring it into my editor I don't see it at all. I tried to copy the code on the web into notepad, save it, then open in komposer and save it but no luck...

This sucks.

**LadynRed** · 01-05-2010, 09:27 PM

The problem is, that you DON"T see it in your code, I only found it when I brought it into Notepad, then it showed up.

What Character set is your Komposer set up to use?

**mma** · 01-06-2010, 09:18 AM

There might be a problem with the code that is not applicable in the browser. You better take a look on that because there are codes that the browser reject.

**chrishirst** · 01-06-2010, 09:29 AM

Set Komposer to save the file as UTF-8 it should then remove the BOM (Byte Order Mark)

**Reckoner** · 02-09-2010, 05:52 PM

Hmmm.

Still trying to figure this out...

The Komposer settings for character encoding are at UTF 8 when I save an HTML file.

When I try to bring the html code from the blank page into notepad and save as an html file that way, it doesn't seem to work either.

**chrishirst** · 02-09-2010, 05:57 PM

http://www.webmaster-talk.com/the-go...tml#post983045

**Reckoner** · 02-10-2010, 11:24 AM

Thanks Chris, but I don't think that was the problem as I stated that the UTF-8 character set is already set up.

I believe I found the problem though, for some reason, komposer does not close the </script> tag on what should be my:

<script src="../js/swfobject.js" language="javascript" /></script>

That is set up at the <head> which causes all sorts of problems when it's not closed.

It's weird though, because when I open the document in komposer, the </script> does not show up at all, but in Dreamewaver </script> appears when opened.

Even when I add the </script> in komposer the page goes entirely blank. So I think what I will do is delete that script entirely from the pages. When I remove it, I can preview the pages correctly.

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