HTML editor losing in style and inserts <p>

I using HTML editor to edit a dataassist form on an update page for an admin backend.

Here is the code the HTML editor generates.

<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><strong>Hannah</strong></span> - Female Parti Yorkie Pup</p>

And this is what it saves to the database, but when you re edit the html editor shows

<p><span style=""><strong>Hannah</strong></span> - Female Parti Yorkie Pup</p>

1. How do I kept from losing the line style?
2. How do I keep HTML editor from inserting <p></p>?

This is how I want the code

<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><strong>Hannah</strong></span> - Female Parti Yorkie Pup


Thanks

Larry

1) When the page is initially created by DataAssist, the form element bindings are created to replace any double quote (") with the html entity "&quote;". You will need to rebind the HTML Edit to the ShortDesc column to remove this.

Edit the HTMLEditor instance on the page, click the lightning bolt next to Initial Value and Select the ShortDesc column.

2) Edit the HTMLEditor instance and click the Customize button next to Editor Preset. On the Formatting tab, select the option to "Use <br> for rreturn"

Thanks so much. Works just like I needed it to. The directions were perfect.