non visual editor inserting unwanted code

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On pages (it only has occurred on pages) using the non visual editor I am consistently getting break tags and paragraph tags thrown in by wordpress.

When inserting a tag that is not a block level element wordpress will insert this code so instead of:

<span>
Hello World!
</span>

It would spit out:

<span><br/>
Hello World!
</span>

Or possibly even:

<p><span><br/>
Hello World!
</span></p>

I communicated over twitter with a person at automattic who told me to come here and submit a bug report so here I am.

I have tried re-installing wordpress and various other random css tricks to no avail, so I am turning to the wordpress community.

The errors can be seen on the following pages: ​http://www.cadistrict38.org/front and ​http://www.cadistrict38.org/staff although some css or comments are utilized to get a somewhat acceptable look while this issue is addressed.

When using the HTML editor in WordPress, each new line is usually converted to <br /> and two new lines to <p>. The tags are not shown to keep the text more readable. Typing:

<span>
Hello World!
</span>

is different than typing:

<span>Hello World!</span>

Of course, bot of these will have to be wrapped in <p> tags, so the html is compliant with the XHTML 1.0 specification.

The end result on the site should look like this:

<p><span>Hello World!</span></p>
<p>Some other text...</p>

No traction on this one for 5 months. Entry above intimates this is not a bug - closing ticket