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PHP

Posted by Mauro Bonucci
Mauro Bonucci
5,953 Points

White space when using php includes

Hi there, i notice that when i use includes in my files, in my case the header, it appears a white space at the top. But i no that if i change the file to UTF whitout BOM that it resolves. My question is why that this happen?

1 Answer

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi Mauro,

UTF with BOM inserts a few bytes at the beginning of the file to indicate the encoding. This produces the whitespace in your html.

So you always want to save without BOM so you don't have those extra few bytes.

Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10199355/php-include-causes-white-space-at-the-top-of-the-page