Internet Explorer Error Invalid Character
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You can target relevant areas of the site and show ads based on geographical location of the user if you wish. Starts at just $1 per CPM or $0.10 per CPC. IE says there is an invalid character, but I cannot find it ... Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by cre8ive, Dec 19, 2007. 0 cre8ive Peon Messages: 295 Likes Received: 1 Best Answers: 0 Trophy Points: 0 #1 I get the following message as I test my website in IE. Line: 202 Char: 1 Error: Invalid character Code: 0 URL: [my site's url] But the line 202 is the following:
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probably the worst browser for web development. Or maybe I'm too used to Firefox. Let me give you just a simple example, that can drive you mad. Have you ever encountered the below error?
Line: 2 Char: 1 Error: Invalid character Code: 0 URL: ...
I did. So I googled a little bit to see what could be the problem and I come over this article. Of course, that wasn't the problem. Finally, I realized myself: one of the referenced JavaScript files was missing. I know that this is my mistake, but I'm totally amazed about the usefulness of the IE error messages. It is a missing file, not an invalid character. Not to mention, that the URL is always the main one, even though the error occurred in one of the referenced JavaScript files and the line reported is not the actual line where the error occurred, but increased by 1. But this is already common knowledge. That's one of the reasons I always use Firefox for web development, try to stick to the standards and only in the end, test the solution on Internet Explorer too. And there is no decent JavaScript debugger for IE. And … I also wrote a small HTML, for you to see what I'm talking about. Later update: This was tested on IE6. In IE8 works as expected. Share this:FacebookTwitterMoreLinkedInGoogleEmailPrintLike this:Like Loading... Related Categories: Web Tags: cross browser, IE, javascript Comments (14) Trackbacks (1) Leave a comment Trackback JFR January 28, 2009 at 10:02 pm Reply Hi, You can try Companion.JS : http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/CompanionJS/HomePage It is free and gives you detailled info about javascript errors under IE. Hope this helps. JFR Adrian January 29, 2009 at 10:36 am Reply Actually I tried it, but it's not by far the same experience as with Venkman in Firefox. And if I throw in the game, Web Developer Toolbar, HttpFox, JSView, User Agent Switcher, then Firefox is totally winning. At least for me. JFR January 29, 2009 at 10:41 am Reply Well. I'm not sure to understand. Is it a comparison between firefox and IE ? In this case for usre Firefox wins. Or are you trying to find a useful tool to debug under IE specifically ? In this case Companion.JS gives detailled information about the js error with possible stack trace, which is much more useful than the standa