Why is  appearing in my HTML? [duplicate]

Answer 1

An old stupid trick that works in this case... paste code from your editor to ms notepad, then viceversa, and evil character will disappears ! I take inspiration from wyisyg/msword copypaste problem. Notepad++ utf-8 w/out BOM works as well.

Answer 2

If you have a lot of files to review, you can use this tool: https://www.mannaz.at/codebase/utf-byte-order-mark-bom-remover/

Credits to Maurice

It help me to clean a system, with MVC in CakePhp, as i work in Linux, Windows, with different tools.. in some files my design was break.. so after checkin in Chrome with debug tool find the &#65279 error

Answer 3

Before clear space (trim)

Then replace with RegEx .replace("/\xEF\xBB\xBF/", "")

I'm working on Javascript, I did with JavaScript.

Answer 4

The character in question &#65279 is the Unicode Character 'ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE' (U+FEFF). It may be that you copied it into your code via a copy/paste without realizing it. The fact that it's not visible makes it hard to tell if you're using an editor that displays actual unicode characters.

One option is to open the file in a very basic text editor that doesn't understand unicode, or one that understands it but has the ability to display any non-ascii characters using their actual codes.

Once you locate it, you can delete the small block of text around it and retype that text manually.