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Mysterious artifact "7" in html body tag innerHTML

Recently I noticed a mysterious "7" appearing in the top left corner of my homepage: http://heart2heartshanghai.net/index.cfm but I cannot find a "7" in my CFML code.
In trying to track this down (to remove it), I created a totally empty new page in my site's root: http://heart2heartshanghai.net/index2.cfm -- but the "7" still mysteriously appears!

Firebug shows the HTML of the "empty" page as:

<html>
<head></head>
<body>7 </body>
</html>

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and when I inspect the DOM with Firebug I see several references to "7\n" (which I think is the mysterious artefact I want to remove) which I have highlighted in bold:

baseURI
      "http://heart2heartshanghai.net/index2.cfm"

childElementCount
      2

childNodes
      [head, body]

0
      head

accessKey
      ""

accessKeyLabel
      "^"

contextMenu
      null

dataset
      DOMStringMap {}

isContentEditable
      false

onmouseenter
      null

onmouseleave
      null

onmozfullscreenerror
      null

parentElement
      html

accessKey
      ""

accessKeyLabel
      "^"

contextMenu
      null

dataset
      DOMStringMap {}

isContentEditable
      false

onmouseenter
      null

onmouseleave
      null

onmozfullscreenerror
      null

parentElement
      null

click
      click()

contains
      contains()

insertAdjacentHTML
      insertAdjacentHTML()

mozRequestFullScreen
      mozRequestFullScreen()

attributes
      []

length
      0

getNamedItem
      getNamedItem()

getNamedItemNS
      getNamedItemNS()

item
      item()

removeNamedItem
      removeNamedItem()

removeNamedItemNS
      removeNamedItemNS()

setNamedItem
      setNamedItem()

setNamedItemNS
      setNamedItemNS()

__proto__
      [xpconnect wrapped native prototype] { item=item(), getNamedItem=getNamedItem(), setNamedItem=setNamedItem(), more...}

baseURI
      "http://heart2heartshanghai.net/index2.cfm"

childElementCount
      2

childNodes
      [head, body]

0
      head

1
      body

accessKey
      ""

accessKeyLabel
      "^"

contextMenu
      null

dataset
      DOMStringMap {}

isContentEditable
      false

onmouseenter
      null

onmouseleave
      null

onmozfullscreenerror
      null

parentElement
      html

click
      click()

contains
      contains()

insertAdjacentHTML
      insertAdjacentHTML()

mozRequestFullScreen
      mozRequestFullScreen()

aLink
      ""

attributes
      []

background
      ""

baseURI
      "http://heart2heartshanghai.net/index2.cfm"

bgColor
      ""

childElementCount
      0

childNodes
      [<TextNode textContent="7\n">]

0
      <TextNode textContent="7\n">

parentElement
      body

wholeText
      "7\n"

contains
      contains()

attributes
      null

baseURI
      "http://heart2heartshanghai.net/index2.cfm"

childNodes
      []

constructor
      Text {}

data
      "7\n"

firstChild
      null

lastChild
      null

length
      2

localName
      null

namespaceURI
      null

nextSibling
      null

nodeName
      "#text"

nodeType
      3

nodeValue
      "7\n"

Can anyone tell me what is going on -- how the "7" got there, and how do I remove it?

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James Williams

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Chris Ashcraft

You might want to take a look at your Application.cfm or Application.cfc (esp the onRequestStart() method)

ShanghaiD

ASKER

Excellent! Thank you!

Mysterious artifact &quot;7&quot; in html body tag innerHTML

Mysterious artifact "7" in html body tag innerHTML