Help Please: Where is the rogue greater than symbol coming from?!

Question

Please look at this file on github: https://github.com/roboirc/kvirc_docs/blob/master/kvirc%20docs/doc_class_index_all.html

If you open the file in a browser locally, you will see the title "Classes: All" in a brown coloured box.

Below that box and the next table, there is a rogue > (greater than) symbol. This character is not in the source code!

If you do Inspect Element, it shows:

"
>" == $0

but those lines in the element inspector have no attributes!

What is going on? Where is this coming from?!

Answer 1

On line 171 you have a stray >. The browser doesn't know where to put it because you are inside a table, so it puts it in front.

Answer 2

I removed parts of the document until the > disappeared and then I hit Ctrl+Z and looked at the part I removed. Rinse and repeat, took me about a minute :)

That sort of error happens to me a bunch too, code editors will insert a > anytime you write < and sometimes you then add a second > because of muscle memory. So I knew what to look for.

Answer 3

Schindlabua I guess a follow up question is how did you find that? manually or did you use some search function or software that showed you?

Answer 4

nice trick to know. like a binary search.

Answer 5

Yeah, pretty much :D