Phantom Showing up in my page - html

Question

I have a page written in HTML/ASP that has a series of nested tables that I use for formatting the page the way I want it.
When the page loads however there is a white space between the two tables that is not in the code and when I inspect it in chrome it shows the code has a &nbsp character between them.
Why is this appearing in the page when it loads but it is not in the script? How can I remove it?
<table width=100% border=2 cellpadding=0>
<tr>
<table width=100%>
<tr>
<th width=10% align="right">Destination:</th>
<td width=60%>Here</td>
<td width=10% align="right">Date:</td>
<td width=20% align="left"> <%=FormatDateTime(d,2)%></td>
</tr>
</table>
</tr>
<tr>
<table width = 100%>
<tr>
<td width=2%> </td>
<td align="right">Time1:</td>
<td align="center"><%=formatTime(oRS1("time"))%></td>
<td><%=oRS1("location")%></td>
<td width=40> </td>
<td align="right">Driver</td>
<td> <%=fpn%></td>
</tr>
<tr>
</table>

Answer 1

I just had this same issue and here are the steps that I tried that eventually fixed it:
Cleared the cache in the browser
Cleared all browser data
Tried a different browser
None of the above worked in my case, and the phantom was not in my code (and I triple checked it!!!!), but it was obviously somewhere since it was showing in the console and other browsers:
So, (and this may not be the best way to solve this but it worked) as you can see from my console output, I added two paragraph tags above and two below (by carefully putting the cursor in front of the next element and using a carriage return and the arrow key to go back up) to get the phantom in the middle. After that I saved it, then proceeded to select and delete the two paragraph tags in the middle together (with the phantom between them). This is what finally worked, the delete of both the elements surrounding it together took the phantom with it...
Perhaps some small part of my html page became corrupted? Who knows... but if anyone else is having this issue, give this a try.