What is ­ and how do i get rid of it

Question

I have noticed, while looking at my page source, the characters ­ showing just after a

tag. I went trough my coding and can\'t find

Answer 1

Soft hyphen (shy) This character is not rendered visibly; instead, it suggests a place where the browser might choose to break the word if necessary. In HTML, you can use ­ to insert a soft hyphen.