Strange characters showing up

[Nogard]

Hello.

The strange characters only show up on Firefox. not IE. They appear in the upper left of the page. This is what they look like:



And this is what it says about the file:

File Type: UTF-8 Unicode English text, with very long lines.

After I remove the characters, this is what it says:

File Type: HTML document text.

I've had to remove them 2 or 3 times today. I was told that it wasn't a server problem. (Maybe they're 'passing the buck'). Any help is appreciated, thanks. TJ

[danlefree]

Are you using a WYSIWYG editor in creating your document(s)? (How are you editing the .html file..?)

[Nogard]

>> Are you using a WYSIWYG editor in creating your document(s)?

I use MS NotePad to creat the files. I've even uploaded the 'clean' file, using FTP, numorus times.

>> How are you editing the .html file..?

I'm using the cpanel editor to edit the file.

[danlefree]

That's pretty strange - do the characters show up when you view the page's source in Firefox and/or IE?

I've never seen any issues with extraneous characters through cPanel, but if they keep reappearing after you remove them and then reappear after you have made no changes to the file, I would say it definitely has something to do with the server.

[wrmineo]

If you are copying code/text from a webpage/site into notepad and then to your editor, you'll get such errors .... is this a possible scenario?

[Nogard]

danlefree

>> do the characters show up when you view the page's source in Firefox and/or IE?

The characters only show up in Firefox, but the next time it happens, I'll use IE. They haven't shown up yet today.

[Nogard]

wrmineo

>> If you are copying code/text from a webpage/site into notepad and then to your editor, you'll get such errors .... is this a possible scenario?

Not sure. I hand code using notepad, then upload using cuteftp. So the problem has to happen on the server side, but they said it wasn't a serverside issue.