title: In IE8, why am I getting a javascript error on my DocType line
body: <p>I am getting this error when running a webpage in internet explorer 8 (not sure if it matters but it happens when I load up a jquery ui dialog)</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/udeqC.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>When I click yes, it brings up the IE8 javascript debugging tools but what is weird is that it shows the error being on the doctype line  . . </p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/F4H2g.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>Can anyone explain what IE is trying to tell me and how I can debug this??</p>
  
  <h2>Update:</h2>
  
  <p>in response to folks saying i need to remove the blank line at the top, here is my code.  There is no extra blank line on anything in my site.master file so i don't understand what it would take to remove this blank line that i see when i view source in IE8.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;%@ Import Namespace="DomainModel" %&gt;
  &lt;%@ Import Namespace="Mvc.Views.OrganisationalUnit" %&gt; 
  &lt;%@ Master Language="C#" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewMasterPage&lt;Mvc.ViewModels.BaseViewModel&gt;" %&gt;
  &lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"&gt;
  &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;
  &lt;head runat="server"&gt;
  </code></pre>