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11 Dec 2012, 2:56 PM
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Odd character showing in corner of browser.

hi there, i have a weird character showing in the top left corner of my webpages.

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

this little box shows when im viewing my site in Firefox but not when using IE. its not showing when i view source in IE either any ideas what it is and how do i get shot of it.

11 Dec 2012, 3:34 PM
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Re: Odd character showing in corner of browser.

Can you give a link to site please?

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11 Dec 2012, 4:16 PM
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Re: Odd character showing in corner of browser.

It does display in IE8 and in the source. Maybe in includes/templates/apple_zen/common/html_header.php ?

11 Dec 2012, 9:14 PM
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Re: Odd character showing in corner of browser.

It doesn't show up in Chrome, it does show up in Opera but shoved way over to the left so far it's hard to see. In FF it shows up clearly. It looks like the symbol for a carriage return if that helps you track it down.

12 Dec 2012, 11:57 AM
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Re: Odd character showing in corner of browser.

Cant find the blinking thing. just an irritating box in the corner. if i was using html bang gone. dont know what to do. i have tried different template but still there. may just delete and start again. i dont think i have a back up from before it appeared.

12 Dec 2012, 12:45 PM
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Re: Odd character showing in corner of browser.

Cheers Hare, didnt work but could see where you was coming from with it.

12 Dec 2012, 12:52 PM
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Re: Odd character showing in corner of browser.

Good luck with this pesty little critter and please post back your finding ...

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12 Dec 2012, 4:13 PM
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Re: Odd character showing in corner of browser.

Could be a number of things - including a "hack", but that is quite remote...

Open the html_header.php file of your apple_zen template.

I think there is a LETTER SPACE occurring just before the opening <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

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

Just put your cursor next to the opening < and hit the BACKSPACE key.

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

Then save.

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13 Dec 2012, 3:24 PM
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Re: Odd character showing in corner of browser.

schoolboy:

Open the html_header.php file of your apple_zen template.

Where do i find this as i cant seem to. Cheers best answer so far from 2 sites

13 Dec 2012, 5:59 PM
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Re: Odd character showing in corner of browser.

See my post #4 for the path to that file.

13 Dec 2012, 9:40 PM
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Re: Odd character showing in corner of browser.

I had already checked but html_header.php isnt there and not sure if tpl_header is the same file

13 Dec 2012, 9:46 PM
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Re: Odd character showing in corner of browser.

Thanks to you all for the great advice. I will just live with it for a few days and when the shop closes over xmas i will pull it down and put it back up.
Thanks again everyone.

13 Dec 2012, 11:19 PM
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Re: Odd character showing in corner of browser.

It's some time since I used Apple Zen, but if there is no html_header.php file in the template's COMMON folder, try:

/includes/templates/template_default/common/

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