How to find and remove unexpected line of code in HTML

Question

I was playing with my website's front-end recently and I don't know how but the following line of code got into the <body> of some of my html files and I can't find where this line is in my files so that I can remove it:






              &#65279;

And here's an image of what I see when I inspect my pages with the DevTools:

a busy cat

How can I fix this?

Please post all the code you have. I guarantee it's in there somewhere. — EGC, Oct 31 '19 at 21:12
Possible duplicate of https://stackoverflow.com/q/9691771/1263904 — pritam, Oct 31 '19 at 21:14
**DO NOT post images of code, data, error messages, etc.** - copy or type the text into the question. https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask — Rob, Nov 01 '19 at 11:36

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 31 '19 at 21:15

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The character in question &#65279 is the Unicode Character Unicode Character 'ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE' (U+FEFF)

Just open that file by notepad++ then step follow --> Encoding\ encoding UTF-8 without BOM then save your file.

answered Oct 31 '19 at 21:15

Melchia

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Thanks for that, I use Atom as code editor so will it work with this one too? – locq Oct 31 '19 at 21:23
Yes you can do it with ATOM too it's listed below – Melchia Oct 31 '19 at 21:27

How to find and remove unexpected line of code in HTML

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