I thought at first glance it might be a reference being swallowed by the browser thinking it was an html entity ( &whatever; ). I don't see anything in the pag

I thought at first glance it might be a reference being swallowed by the browser thinking it was an html entity ( &whatever; ). I don't see anything in the page source either though. So if it was something swallowed as an entity it didn't make it into the final source at all. Perhaps an editor expanded it automatically into nothing. old_val <span style="color: #333333">=</span> ;