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Asked: 2026-06-12T05:41:17+00:00

I’m developing an app in ASP.Net MVC4 and am having a strange issue with

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I’m developing an app in ASP.Net MVC4 and am having a strange issue with whitespace. I’ve developed plenty of MVC3 sites with Razor without this issue.

Here’s my template cshtml file:

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>
<head>
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
    <title>HF - Content Management - @ViewBag.Title</title>
    <link href="@Url.Content("~/content/bootstrap/bootstrap.min.css")" rel="stylesheet" />
    @Styles.Render("~/bundles/css/hf-cms-logged-in")
</head>
    <body>

        @Html.Partial("Partials/NavBar")

        <div class="container">@RenderBody()</div>

        <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script>
        <script src="@Url.Content("~/scripts/bootstrap/bootstrap.min.js")"></script>
        @Scripts.Render("~/bundles/js/validation")
        <script src="@Url.Content("~/scripts/hf-cms.js")"></script>
    </body>
</html>

Note the line with the RenderBody() call – there’s no extraneous whitespace here.

When I call an action, the rendered body is prepended with some whitespace which I can’t see that I’ve added, and can’t seem to get rid of. I call an action with no logic, it only returns the following view:

@{
    ViewBag.Title = "Dashboard";
}    
<h1>Dashboard</h1>

It’s definitely using the correct template (specified in my _ViewStart.cshtml)

Viewing the page in Google Chrome, the source shows extra whitespace. See the image below:

Whitespace shown in Google Chrome developer tools

A similar issue can be seen in IE10. This is obviously affecting the design. I’ve tried using Meleze.Web to strip out any extra whitespace, but whitespace still remains.

I’m at a loss with this one, as it’s a relatively simple site so far, there’s nothing funky going on yet, so I can’t see where this whitespace is coming from.

Has anybody else seen this with MVC4 or Razor before?

Edit: I’ve tried removing all stylesheets and script files, the whitespace still exists.

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  1. Editorial Team

    After struggling with this for a while, I’ve found the solution.

    There must have been a funny character in the root _ViewStart.cshtml file. I deleted the contents of the ViewStart file and retyped it, which solved the problem. This got me thinking that a strange character could be causing the issue.

    Don’t like answering my own question, but I hope this helps somebody else. In theory, this won’t be an MVC4-specific issue, you could encounter the same problem in MVC3.

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