Hello to everyone who helped me. Today I have completely remade and uploaded the site - and NO rogue text|
Cheers and thank you.
Julia

Hi Joe,  thanks for this. Last night I decided to completely remake the site, so have been doing it all day  should have it done by bedtime. Will post on here if it succeeds!

Hi Joe, yes I did try.. I can see the code - this is how it appears in all the pages:
https://i.postimg.cc/HJjrC0Hr/code-snip3.jpg
My problem is that I can't remove it, in x6 it does not allow you to cut anything from the code. When I added the Google verification, the  window did not give any option to paste into head or body sections, it looked like this:

https://i.postimg.cc/qzd0VS7n/Capture-validation-window.jpg

I can only see the source code for the ordinary pages, not the master page, when I right-click and choose 'add HTML'.

Thanks - I just tried alt s on the main master page - nothing happened...

Thanks very much Joe and tomH for your replies. I am sure you are on the right track, what you say makes perfect sense, but I can't see how I could have done this as I am using x6, which (maybe unlike x8) does not offer me a choice in where to place the validation code; this is the window I used:

https://i.postimg.cc/qzd0VS7n/Capture-validation-window.jpg

and now that the code is in the wrong place on all the pages, I cannot see a way to delete it. I will keep on trying today, but if you have any suggestions, please let me know.

Many years ago I bought x8 and still have the product key although I do not have the software on my PC any more. If all else fails, do you think it is feasible for me to download x8 and try to move this site across into x8?  Does x8 allow you to edit the source code? Lots of questions - sorry!
Thanks, Julia

Hello, thank you so much for replying.
I had already tried this, but have tried again, sadly with the same result. I excluded the test page from navigation, published to disc folder (my local ftp folder for this site), used CuteFTP to transfer file to host (Hostpapa), rogue code still there. I could see the code in in the Webplus Preview Page setting, immediately after making the page, both via Chrome and Explorer, and also in the source code, accessed by the 'attach html' button, even before saving the page.
You can see it at www.aliceglasnerova.com/test1.html

I also tried making a completely blank master page and used it for another test page (test3) which still shows the rogue code.

I have made a new webplus site, www.aliceglasnerova.com. Then I did the Google verification process. But now, the Google verification code appears at the top of all the live pages of the site. It isn't in my webplus coding, but I can see it in the source coding when I go to 'attach html' (see attached snip), and I cannot delete it - the 'cut' option is greyed out.

This has never happened on any of my other websites, but this is the first one I have have registered with Google Search console, rather than the old Webmaster tools. I asked Google to remove it from search, in the hope this would remove the code, but it didn't.
Please can someone help?

Thanks
Julia