"About Me" section of my profile has a bunch of <br> tags that I

What's up with that? There's a huge bock of blank space above the text I put in the about me section, and I can't remove it

I've worked around it with css, setting every related <br> attribute to 0 (height, line-height, font-size, etc)
but I still wonder why that's there?

It turns every newline into a <br>, so your HTML can't have any newlines without screwing stuff up. I guess I should make it do a double newline into a <p> instead huh.

No, I put all my text inside a table, but the <br> tags are all above the table code. I have put nothing above the table myself. I did check to make sure I didn't have empty space above the table that could be interpretted as a return command, but there's nothing above the table that I put there myself. But those <br> tags are still there no matter what I do.

I tried deleting the whole table, and saving, and then going back in and pasting the table back in, making sure there were no spaces above the table at all. But all the break tags returned.
So then I deleted everything so that it said, "I have nothing interesting to say", and then rewrote the whole thing from scratch and now it's ok.