How to prevent pages from automatically adding line breaks?

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I’m trying to style a form on a website, but I’m hitting a snag. WordPress is automatically generating <br> tags when I directly edit the HTML for pages.

What I’ve got is this:

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<fieldset>
<legend>* Your name:</legend>
<ul class="singleLine">
    <li>
    <span>
        <input id="FName" type="text" name="FName" size="20" maxlength="20" />
        <label for="FName">First</label>
    </span>
    <span>
        <input id="LName" type="text" name="LName" size="30" maxlength="40" />
        <label for="LName">Last</label>
    </span>
    </li>
</ul>
</fieldset>

…all mashed together into a single line because WP wants to generate <br> tags all over the place if I don’t. I can deal with that, but I’m actually still getting <br> tags generated directly after each<span> tag in the resulting page even with all of the HTML smooshed together on one line. How do I get rid of those?

Thanks!

Edit: Here’s the portion of the layout that generates the page content. 

<div id="main-content">
    <?php while( have_posts() ) : the_post() ?>
        <h1 id="pagetitle"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
        <div class="pagecontent">
            <?php get_the_content() ?>
        </div>
    <?php endwhile ?>   
</div>

replacing get_the_content() with the_content() renders properly.

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  1. Try using get_the_content(); in your page template loop instead of the_content();

    EDIT 05/24/2012 – Try this:

    <div id="main-content">
    <?php while( have_posts() ) : the_post() ?>
        <h1 id="pagetitle"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
        <div class="pagecontent">
            <?php echo get_the_content(); ?>
        </div>
    <?php endwhile ?>   
</div>

    P.S. You will also need to consider the rest of your more “normal” wordpress pages through out your site.

    You don’t want ALL of your pages functioning like that. I would create a page template for the pagess that need to function this way, the rest of your pages should use the normal page.php template.

    Learn more on page templates.