Strip out DIV tags around rich text fields

Question

I've noticed that SharePoint 2010 wraps rich text fields (multiline text) with DIV tags, which can be annoying. I've got a custom XSL template for the columns being pulled by a content query web part and would like to format the text correctly; unfortunately, the extra "naked" DIV tags (no attributes) cause line breaks where I don't need them.

For example, the following has a line break:

Address: <xsl:value-of select="@MyAddressColumn" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>

So it comes out like this:

Address: 
123 Main St.

I want it to be this instead:

Address: 123 Main St.

Is there any way to prevent these DIV tags from being generated around the content by SharePoint? Thanks.

Answer 1

One way to fix this was to append a class on a tag surrounding the address, and then add display:inline to the nested DIV:

.test div
{
    Display:inline;
}


<DIV class="test">address: <DIV>123 main st.</DIV></DIV>