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baytonemus
I have two pages in the checkout area of my store where a single greater-than sign is appearing above a table nested inside of another table. It's definitely not in the code, nor does it appear in the parsed source code when the pages are loaded.

I can post some code and links but I thought I'd first ask if this is a known issue.

Thanks - JAY
pandy
I bet it IS in the code. happy.gif

You have a ">" on the loose somewhere in the table, .i.e. it's between the table elements where nothing should go. Loose characters tend to display at the top of the table.

You could have written for instance </td>> .
baytonemus
QUOTE
Loose characters tend to display at the top of the table.


Well, I knew that I should be looking for just that and I've searched the thing about 50 times. Are you saying it could "drift up" from somewhere down a ways in the table?

pandy
Yes, it can display that way if it is where it shouldn't be, i.e. outside the table elements that can contain data. Like this.

HTML
<table>
<tr>
xxx
<td>...</td>
yyy
<td>...</td>
</tr>
zzz
</table>


Those xxx, yyy and zzz will probably show up at the top of the table.

If you link to the document we can't help you find it.
baytonemus
Dang you, Pandy! You were right...

I had checked everywhere in the vicinity of the top of the table but it was buried WAY down inside. I learned something new again!

Thanks. That thing was buggin' the crap out of me.
pandy
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Yeah, it's really annoying before you find out how it works. I remember it well. happy.gif
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