CKeditor adding an extra  tag when a  tag is encountered I am experiencing a very annoying problem with ckeditor 4.4.7.3. Everytime a &lt;br/&gt; is entered into the editor, it displays the next line right below the existing line as one would expect. However, when you view the page, an extra &lt;br/&gt; tag appears along side the original &lt;br/&gt; tag. You can see this when looking at the source for the page.

Rendered output
&lt;p&gt;
  &lt;strong&gt;Age&lt;/strong&gt;
  &lt;br&gt;
  &lt;br&gt;
  24
&lt;/p&gt;


Looking at the source html while in ckeditor reveals that there is only one &lt;br/&gt; there. 

Source as seen in ckeditor
&lt;p&gt;
  &lt;strong&gt;Age&lt;/strong&gt;
  &lt;br&gt;
  24
&lt;/p&gt;


This would seem to indicate to me that Drupal is adding line breaks while rendering the output. I have tried disabling the option: Convert line breaks into HTML (i.e. &lt;br&gt; and &lt;p&gt;) in the text format, but that doesn't change anything. I have also disabled JavaScript to see if some JavaScript file is doing this - but that makes no difference either.

I have googled this issue and have not found a solution yet (other people have been experiencing as well but no solution given). I would appreciate any suggestions in fixing this problem.
As it turns out, disabling the option: Convert line breaks into HTML (i.e. &lt;br&gt; and &lt;p&gt;) in the text format does make a difference. I needed to flush the cache to see the results. Hopefully this will help other people who experience this problem.