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When I reload my php page, in the top left corner it's displaying: 

I've been searching for it and I got the BOM issue.

But I've another issue: In the exactly same position, inspecting the element, it has something that seems some kind of hack. There is an object and one div, with _GPL_swf and _GPL_e6a00_parent_div as it's id's respectively.

I'm in doubt if the BOM comes from this two elements** or from my own stuff.

What do you think? Any clue how to remove it?

Jongware
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Nuno Alexandre
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  • If this is your project, how come you don't know why those elements are in your source? Either *you* put them there, in which case they're OK, or you didn't, in which case they're not a good sign... – DCoder Aug 01 '13 at 16:41
  • @DCoder if it was me putting it there I would know if for sure :) By searching with the _GPL_e6a00_parent_div? key (https://www.google.pt/search?q=_GPL_e6a00_parent_div&oq=_GPL_e6a00_parent_div&aqs=chrome.0.69i57j69i59j69i65j69i62l3.1725j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8) you see that probably it's something bigger than my stupidity. – Nuno Alexandre Aug 01 '13 at 16:46

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The BOM is there because you saved your file as UTF-8 with signature most likely on windows, try saving as UTF-8 without signature in your text editor. Also verify that you've added the following to the head tag:

<meta charset="utf-8"/>
Mgetz
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  • the meta was like your suggestion, thank you. About the UTF-8 without signature, I'm trying to work on it (I'm using Jedit for Windows 8. I knew I should had stay in Fedora...) Thanks! – Nuno Alexandre Aug 01 '13 at 16:58
  • Solved with Notpad++! The _GPL_e6a00_parent_div is still there, anyway. It just needs to have the tag to appear even if there is nothing in the body. Thanks! – Nuno Alexandre Aug 01 '13 at 20:15
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I found the same HTML tag on a customer's computer which was inserted right at the beginning of the <body> tag:

<div id="_GPL_e6a00_parent_div" style="position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; z-index: 2147483647;"><object data="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/e6a00/storage.swf?r=1" id="_GPL_e6a00_swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="1" width="1"><param value="transparent" name="wmode"><param value="always" name="allowscriptaccess"><param value="logfn=_GPL.items.e6a00.log&amp;onload=_GPL.items.e6a00.onload&amp;onerror=_GPL.items.e6a00.onerror&amp;LSOName=gpl" name="flashvars"></object></div>

Since most computers did not have this, and since it was not there in another browser on the same computer, I thought it had to be related to some plugins, and it turns out that by disabling them, the tag was no longer inserted there.

I am still trying to figure out which plugin caused this, since there were so many installed, but disabling Shockwave Flash plugin from Firefox solved the problem for this computer.

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The following is caused by loading the CSS with the media attribute set to screen:

<link href="css/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" />

When using Inspect Element in FF, I saw the following:

<div id="_GPL_e6a00_parent_div" style="position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; z-index: 2147483647;"
<object id="_GPL_e6a00_swf" width="1" height="1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/e6a00/storage.swf?r=1"></object>

Removing the media attribute resolved the issue.

TLama
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