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Post July 23rd, 2009, 2:44 am

If you look on the page http://www.dwhs.net/web-hosting-plans.htm under where it says advanced options there is a symbol I cannot find anywhere in the code of the page. It's a < symbol. Do you have any idea why? I have spent almost a hour now and am desperate. You can do a right click to see the full source code of the page.

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Post July 23rd, 2009, 2:44 am

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Post July 23rd, 2009, 4:41 am

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<td bgcolor="#999999" class="style23">PHP/td>
<td height="0" bgcolor="#999999" class="style23">yes</td>
<td height="0" bgcolor="#999999" class="style23">yes</td>
<td height="0" bgcolor="#999999" class="style23">yes</td>
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<td height="0" bgcolor="#999999" class="style23">yes</td>
 
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  2. <td bgcolor="#999999" class="style23">PHP/td>
  3. <td height="0" bgcolor="#999999" class="style23">yes</td>
  4. <td height="0" bgcolor="#999999" class="style23">yes</td>
  5. <td height="0" bgcolor="#999999" class="style23">yes</td>
  6. <
  7. <td height="0" bgcolor="#999999" class="style23">yes</td>
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I'd love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
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Post July 23rd, 2009, 11:17 am

That was exactly it! Thanks soo much
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Post July 23rd, 2009, 11:47 am

You're welcome. Good rule of thumb to remember - the offending rogue char isn't always in the code where the page makes it appear to be. Collective entities, like tables, divs, frames and the like can all push the rogue char out of place on the page, so the best way to find it IMO is to start at the bottom of the file and read backwards.
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Post July 23rd, 2009, 11:54 am

great advice, I have never seen a symbol be pushed like that. I thought I was losing my mind. lol
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Post July 24th, 2009, 2:55 pm

Another good solution at least in instances like that is to use an IDE that allows for code folding/auto balancing so you can eliminate sections of the code without having to do a lot of work to find open/close tags.
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Post July 24th, 2009, 2:59 pm

Meh, still have to read through the code to make sure you can fold the section, no?
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Post July 24th, 2009, 3:02 pm

true. I just always find that I'm searching through lots of code to see if i can find an errant <</div> etc. However, my IDE won't allow you to collapse or auto balance if there's something off like that so at least it helps with where to look.
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Post July 24th, 2009, 9:26 pm

If you got something that searches through the code (Like Notepad++), You could simply look for << and then >>... I sometimes do that... Or I simply search for '< ' or ' >'.
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