Styled `span` elements injected into comment output

Question

Does anyone know of a way to stop EE from injecting spans (with inline styles) into code blocks in comments? I'm fine with the div wrapping the code (that's not that big of a deal), but the spans are completely unnecessary.

Example output from EE:

<div class="codeblock">
    <code>
        <span style="color: #000000">
            <span style="color: #0000BB">This is code</span>
        </span>
    </code>
</div>

Edit to update: I've worked around this problem by using the following CSS to override the inline styles, so really this is just a matter of "I don't want junk in my markup" over broken functionality. (Also, a matter of pride, because !important is !embarassing.)

.codeblock code, .codeblock span {
    color: #ddd !important;
}

Answer 1

Per this EE bug report: "...code tags are being parsed...[a]nd we add our own styling when that’s done."

So this is expected behavior, but overrideable with CSS:

.codeblock code, .codeblock span {
    color: [YOUR COLOR HERE] !important;
}