I was coding html with Visual studio, and became so frustrated that CSS sometimes didn’t work and there were some mysterious white gaps.<\/p>\n
After struggling for hours I noticed that there were some “ These characters are byte order marks (BOMs), aka “zero width no-break space”, which are totally invisible in the editor (but if you open it in Word and show the hidden marks, they’ll show). In Word they can be replaced with ^u8520.<\/p>\n Visual Studio saves UTF-8 files \u201cwith signature\u201d by default, which also saves the BOM characters.<\/p>\n The remedy is to choose the encoding “UTF-8 without signature”.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was coding html with Visual studio, and became so frustrated that CSS sometimes didn’t work and there were some mysterious white gaps. After struggling for hours I noticed that there were some “” in the code. These characters are byte order marks (BOMs), aka “zero width no-break space”, which are totally invisible in the … Continue reading  is the culprit for mysterious white gaps<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlao.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlao.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlao.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlao.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlao.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlao.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlao.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlao.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlao.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/code>” in the code.<\/p>\n