Kim, there is indeed a Byte Order Mark at the start of your file. Chanches are it is an artifact inserted by your text editor when saving as utf-8. If you open that file (or the saved page source) in a non-utf8-aware text editor (like plain old Notepad on Win98) you'll see that the first line starts with "". While it is not visible on your page, usually Gecko-based browsers DO show the offending characters.
What you can do: 1.) Check your text editor's options if you can tell it somewhere to save as "UTF-8 NO BOM" or similar; 2.) Go for a text editor that has such an option (I use Notepad++: http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/); 3.) Manually edit each file in Notepad, deleting those characters (they serve no purpose on the web, see: http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#29). Anyway, you should make sure the browser knows the file is utf-8. If you have access to your server configuration (or .htaccess file) just add a line saying "AddDefaultCharset utf-8". If you can't (or want to be sure it works even when saved on disk) change your meta element to: <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> Hope it helps. djn > Kim Brooks Wei wrote: >> Hi People, >> >> I can't validate this page http://thewei.com/sandboxcar/menu.html >> >> I get a message showing an upside down question mark before the start >> of the declaration header. But there is no such character in my text, >> not even as an invisible character. >> -- Dejan Kozina Dolina 346 (TS) - I-34018 Italy tel./fax: +39 040 228 436 - cell.: +39 348 7355 225 http://www.kozina.com/ - e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
