Ghost Char - < Does not exist in the code, but shows in rendered HTML

Question

Take a look at this page: http://jqeedu.tuxfamily.org/test/index.php.
You'll see a < between the fieldset and table. Firebug also shows there is a < But it is not in the code. I have checked character by character, in Notepad++, notepad, and XVI32. View Page Source in Firefox does not show it either! How could this be possible?

Answer 1

Line 117:

<td>Room D</td><<td>&nbsp;</td><td>&

Spot the <<. A stray < or > in the page result is usually due to a tag delimiter typed twice, so a quick find (or find and replace) in the source for << or >> catches them.