WordPress autoformat weirdness

Hello,

I am running the latest wordpress on a multisite and been running it for years. With growing experience though more and more fancy options come up where wordpress just stands in the way.

I don’t write clean code, but what the autoformat is jsut doign realyl weird stuff at times, e.g.

<span><select id="itemcat" onchange='itemcat()'>
	<option value="1">Items</option>
</select></span><span id="dd1"><select id="1" name="1" onchange='getskcode()'><option value="" selected="selected"></option>
	<option value="39be5">Ultimate Healing Potion</option>
</select></span>

and autoformat turns it into

<span><br />
<select id="itemcat" onchange='itemcat()'>
<option value="1">Items</option>

</select>
<p></span><span id="dd1"><br />

<select id="1" name="1" onchange='getskcode()'>
<option value="39be5">Ultimate Healing Potion</option>
</select>
<p></span>

I find that a bit weird and saw posts like “Turn visual editor off!” and in fact I did for this example. Why can’t we have an option to just disable this for a post with a lot of customization, without having to use an extra plugin for it. Or am I overlooking something?

Thanks for feedback

Michael