I also saw <span style="font-style: italic;" > and kind of horrible things appear. Do you know where that might have come from?
This is default Mozilla stuff. If added the following lines to htmlarea.js to change this. But isn't working for you?
//http://www.interactivetools.com/iforum/Open_Source_C3/htmlArea_v3.0_-_Beta_Release_F14/%3Cb%3E_and_%3Ci%3E_vs_%3Cspan%3E_P7811/ if (HTMLArea.is_gecko) { doc.execCommand("useCSS",false,true); }
See also http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2003/midas/01/
Jaco
