PHP include causes white space at the top of the page

I have a problem on a site that I am making. There is this line of white space at the top of my page. I can not find out where it is coming from. It might be because of extra line breaks in my page thanks to php include() or maybe it is just some faulty css.

Solution 1:

I got it! I must admit, this was a very strange one.

This was my exact problem, and his solution fixed it perfectly.

The problem was because of the include().

When you save a page as UTF-8, a special signature called a byte-order mark (or BOM) is included at the beginning of the file, indicating that it is a UTF-8 file. You can only see BOMs with low level text editors (such as DOS edit). You need to remove this signature from the included file in order to get rid of the white space at the top of the page.

Solution 2:

In Notepad++ you can change the encoding of the file to "UTF-8 without BOM" from the "Encoding" menu. This fixes the problem for me.

Solution 3:

1. Open file in Notepadd++

2. From top bar: Encoding->Encode in UTF8 without BOM

3. Save the file

In Dreamweaver

Press CTRL + J or go to Change->Page Settings->Tile/Encoding and unchek UNICODE BOM if it is cheked.