Drupal 7 inserting space before inline HTML tags upon rendering Whenever I try to use &lt;a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;, &lt;sup&gt;, or &lt;sub&gt; tags (or probably any other inline tag), Drupal inserts a space before the HTML tag. This does not happen within the node but rather upon the HTML rendering. 

For instance: 

234&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; in the body field

is rendered as

234 &lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; on the page

Any idea why this would be or what I can do to eliminate the space that is being added? I have TinyMCE installed on the site, but (long story) it is disabled so that I input everything in raw HTML.
If you use "Full HTML" text input rather than "Filtered HTML", then Drupal won't parse or modify your markup.