Title: Unwanted character generated
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Unwanted character generated

 *  [paross](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paross/)
 * (@paross)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unwanted-character-generated/)
 * The site is here: [http://journal.whitefield.edu](http://journal.whitefield.edu)
 * It requires a login until the site is complete: login – phillip, password: ross(
   I usually have to enter the login twice – don’t know why).
 * As you can see, I have added a menu. If you will look at the site’s generated
   code in IE or Opera you will see that an unknown character has been generated
   just before the menu:
 * {HERE}<div id=”menu”>
 * FF ignores it. But IE and Opera cause it to generate an extra line.
 * It may be my PHP code in the header.php file
 *     ```
       <? include("forummenu.htm") ?> <!--Phil added-->
       ```
   
 * which calls this file (no headers, nothing but this div:
 *     ```
       <div id="menu">
   
       ...
   
       </div>
       ```
   
 * How can I get rid of the generated character?
 * Phil

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 *  Thread Starter [paross](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paross/)
 * (@paross)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unwanted-character-generated/#post-596792)
 * Thanks anyway. It looks like I fixed it. It was a BOM issue regarding utf-8.
 * Phil

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