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hello, I am creating a table with a form inside of it.
the code I used is as so:

<form action="formprocess.php"><table>.....</form>

for some reason between the form tag and the table tag, even though nothing is there, it is reading it as a &lt; and putting a less than sign there. does anybody know how to fix this?

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A stray less-than sign usually means a literal "<" is getting into the page output or the HTML is malformed so the browser shows a stray character. correctly asked for the full markup and 's pointer about an extra angle bracket is a common lead — the real problem is almost always in the surrounding markup, an include, or server-side output rather than the table or form tags themselves.

Quick troubleshooting checklist:

  • View the raw page source (not just the inspector) to see whether the "<" appears in the HTML the server sent.
  • Use the browser developer tools to locate the text node between the form and table in the DOM; that will show which file or script produced it.
  • Run the page through the W3C validator to catch unclosed or misnested tags that can push stray characters into the rendered flow.
  • Search templates and included files for accidental characters or echo/print statements that emit "<" or an already-escaped entity; templating engines or old include files are frequent sources.
  • Check stylesheets and scripts for pseudo-elements or JS that inject text (CSS content can add characters — see MDN content).
  • Try isolating the problem with a minimal static HTML file: reproduce the surrounding markup without server code to see whether the character still appears.

Fixes are usually simple: remove or escape the stray character at its source, correct the malformed tag, or stop a stylesheet/JS rule from inserting the character. If the output only appears in one browser, validate and check browser-specific HTML parsing quirks; otherwise the source file or server-side include almost always contains the culprit.

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1) that snippet looks like a form with a table inside it
2) there's no closing table tag or any details between

If you're posting a code snippet please post all of the snippet so people can see the actual details as what you've posted above not only is improper html but makes no sense whatsoever :twisted:

Not a shot, just need more info than a partial snippet of malformed code :)

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Just an observation: if there is an extra bracket hiding in table code it will show up above the table. - check the rest of your table code. I'm betting there's a

<<td>

hiding in there somewhere.

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