Strange characters with FireFox browser

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Strange characters with FireFox browser

3 characters in upper-left corner, only in Firefox

S_Wagner

6:31 pm on Nov 27, 2006 (gmt 0)

Hi, I'm hoping someone might be able to help me on this one. I just switched to server side includes for the banner & footer on my website. All looks fine in IE6.0, but Firefox 1.0.4 and 2.0 both display 3 extra characters in the upper-left of the browser page. The characters actually show up when I view the page source in FireFox. Here's what I see:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3c.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd">
<HTML>

Those 3 characters before the <!DOCTYPE are not in my source html. I removed the doctype (line 1) completely from the page and the three characters still show up. Can someone shed some light on this one? I'd really appreciate your input.

Thanks!

encyclo

7:01 pm on Nov 27, 2006 (gmt 0)

What you're seeing is a Unicode Byte-Order Mark - it looks like the file was incorrectly saved with the wrong character encoding.

Some more information here:

[webmasterworld.com...]

S_Wagner

7:17 pm on Nov 27, 2006 (gmt 0)

That fixed it. Thank you very much for your help!