Tryingto find some "invisible" text after playing with head code

**V12CatMan** · 17 October 2012, 05:54 PM

I was playing with a placeholder to put in in a line of head code and I've ended up with a line of text at the very top of a web page - in the body. I actually want to get rid of it but I cannot find it. I have looked through every item on the page. I've tried the find function. What is the best way to find something hidden that shows up in webpage preview? Every hide icon is unchecked. Seems simple but this is nutty. What am I missing? Seems like I've got an invisible item with some "body" code.

Can't post customer code.
Gary

**zaphodeist** · 17 October 2012, 07:20 PM

You could try windows>>View quality>>Outlines

**V12CatMan** · 17 October 2012, 07:36 PM

Originally Posted by zaphodeist

You could try windows>>View quality>>Outlines

Tried that. No help. What makes this really mysterious is I have hidden all 8 layers - everything on the page and the page looks blank in all view modes. Yet when I preview the page I see one of my layers. I have toggled it on and off and also closed/restarted the application.
Gary

**V12CatMan** · 17 October 2012, 08:09 PM

Here's what I am seeing in the source - both of the preview page and the exported index page:

link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="index_htm_files/specialeffects.css

This came from when I was playing around with inserting a line of code into the head section in order to link to a special css file. The absence of the opening < and closing > is causing the text to display as the first line of code in the body. I deleted this code but it is still showing up somehow in the head section and displaying in the body because of the bad syntax.

However there is no entry in the WebProperties Head or Body sections - on either the index page or the entire website.

**zaphodeist** · 17 October 2012, 08:23 PM

That's flummoxed me ... thought it must show up in the WebProperties dialogue, either Page or Website tabs

**V12CatMan** · 17 October 2012, 08:57 PM

Originally Posted by zaphodeist

That's flummoxed me ... thought it must show up in the WebProperties dialogue, either Page or Website tabs

John - problem resolved. I deleted every page in the site except the one I was having the problem with and then deleted everything I could see to leave a blank page and a pasteboard. I intended to upload. When I deleted the background the words disappeared. I had some code associated with the pasteboard. Thought I had hidden that layer too when I was searching for it but I must not have. Not easy to find if you do that by accident.

Gary