Here’s a snapshot of my HTML code as viewed after clicking View Source in IE9. I opens up in Notepad++
Here is the code as parsed by the IE9’s Developer Tool:
Why is there a disconnect between the two?
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Here’s a snapshot of my HTML code as viewed after clicking View Source in IE9. I opens up in Notepad++
Here is the code as parsed by the IE9’s Developer Tool:
Why is there a disconnect between the two?
As @Shadow Wizard suggested in a comment, the probable cause is some data character before the
<!DOCTYPE ...>declaration. For example, the problem is reproducible by taking a valid XHTML document and inserting the no-break space character (NBSP, U+00A0) at the very start of the document. But the presence of a BOM at the start does not cause the problem (at least not on IE 9, hardly on any browser in use). There is a large number of invisible or barely visible characters that might cause the problem.