Title: Layout Distortion Last modified: August 22, 2016 --- # Layout Distortion * Resolved [Janny84](https://wordpress.org/support/users/janny84/) * (@janny84) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/layout-distortion/) * My website layout is completely distorted after adding meta description on header. php. I am using flatsome theme and woo-commerce. I removed the description from the header but still distorted espicially on chrome and IE. Somebody HELP please? What could be the problem? Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/) * (@alchymyth) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/layout-distortion/#post-5464224) * without seeing the site live, it is quite impossible to comment on your problem. * have you tried to clear the browser cache? * please provide a link to your site. * Thread Starter [Janny84](https://wordpress.org/support/users/janny84/) * (@janny84) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/layout-distortion/#post-5464233) * My url is [http://www.zoulama.co.za](http://www.zoulama.co.za) Thanks Alchymyth * [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/) * (@alchymyth) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/layout-distortion/#post-5464236) * you seem to have some invalid character right at the top of header.php – [http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zoulama.co.za%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zoulama.co.za%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0) * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Validating_a_Website](http://codex.wordpress.org/Validating_a_Website) * can you try to use FTP to replace header.php with an unedited version ? * it might also be a good idea to contact the developer of your theme for some advice; * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Commercial_Products](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Commercial_Products) * Thread Starter [Janny84](https://wordpress.org/support/users/janny84/) * (@janny84) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/layout-distortion/#post-5464251) * Hi thanks again. * I can’t find an error on this code but on validator I have 5 errors: Validation Output: 5 Errors * Error Line 2, Column 1: Non-space characters found without seeing a doctype first. Expected .  ✉ Error Line 2, Column 1: Element head is missing a required instance of child element title.  Content model for element head: If the document is an iframe srcdoc document or if title information is available from a higher-level protocol: Zero or more elements of metadata content, of which no more than one is a title element and no more than one is a base element. Otherwise: One or more elements of metadata content, of which exactly one is a title element and no more than one is a base element. Error Line 2, Column 16: Stray doctype.  ✉ Error Line 3, Column 19: Stray start tag html. ✉ Error Line 3, Column 19: Cannot recover after last error. Any further errors will be ignored. * Here is the code: * _[please review [http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum\_Welcome#Posting\_Code](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Posting_Code) for posting code – long section of broken code moderated – please use the [pastebin](http://pastebin.com/)] * [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/) * (@alchymyth) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/layout-distortion/#post-5464252) * the posted code got unfortunately corrupted by the forum editor – review [http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Posting_Code](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Posting_Code) * your theme’s developer will be the best to contact with your problem. * Thread Starter [Janny84](https://wordpress.org/support/users/janny84/) * (@janny84) * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/layout-distortion/#post-5464319) * Thanks..it was a Byte Order Mark (BOM) issue. Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) The topic ‘Layout Distortion’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 6 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Janny84](https://wordpress.org/support/users/janny84/) * Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/layout-distortion/#post-5464319) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics