I was also able to reproduce here http://richtextbox.com/cs/ using IE7.

 

Go to HTML mode, paste in the following text

 

<span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; color: #7e671f; font-family: verdana" span places!< &gt;rave> <p class="date" style="font-weight: bold">April 12, 2007</p> <br /> Test Text <br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: center"> <br /> </div> <br /> <hr /> </span>

 

Now put the cursor at the top and hit return. You will end up with

 

span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; color: #7e671f; font-family: verdana" span places!< &gt;rave> <p class="date" style="font-weight: bold">April 12, 2007</p> <br /> Test Text <br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: center"> <br /> </div> <br /> <hr /> </span>

 

Notice the missing < at the begining. How do I stop this from happening?

 

Jason