So I've added display:inline to my h2, h3, h4, h5 tags in the custom css; however when looking at the produced code on the page, wordpress is adding a <br> before the <h2> tag and <p> after. Is there a location that it's hardcoded to remove those defaults? I have no issue with using the inline coding with regular html pages.

this is my code:

Our Great Western Transportation team has more than 100 years of trucking experience within the <h2 style="display:inline!important;">LTL Trucking</h2> and Full Truckload industry. We specialize in the Flatbed Trucking, Refrigerated Trucking, Dry Van Trucking, Heavy Haul Trucking and Power Only Trucking areas.

And what WP generates:

 Our Great Western Transportation team has more than 100 years of trucking experience within the<br />
<h2 style="display:inline!important;">LTL Trucking</h2>
<p> and Full Truckload industry. We specialize in the Flatbed Trucking, Refrigerated Trucking, Dry Van Trucking, Heavy Haul Trucking and Power Only Trucking areas.</p>

Why not just use something like the following?
Our Great Western Transportation team has more than 100 years of trucking experience within the

<span style="font-size:24px; font-weight:bold;">LTL Trucking</span> and Full Truckload industry. We specialize in the Flatbed Trucking, Refrigerated Trucking, Dry Van Trucking, Heavy Haul Trucking and Power Only Trucking areas.

Originally Posted by lmilesw

Why not just use something like the following?
Our Great Western Transportation team has more than 100 years of trucking experience within the

<span style="font-size:24px; font-weight:bold;">LTL Trucking</span> and Full Truckload industry. We specialize in the Flatbed Trucking, Refrigerated Trucking, Dry Van Trucking, Heavy Haul Trucking and Power Only Trucking areas.

I'm attempting to work in the H tags into the text because the client insists on having those be h tags. The way his site was originally done was that they had h tags with certain key words and commented them out which I can't believe would be good for SEO.

That's something that wordpress is doing. You might want to post this question over at wordpress.org

Originally Posted by lmartindesign

I'm attempting to work in the H tags into the text because the client insists on having those be h tags. The way his site was originally done was that they had h tags with certain key words and commented them out which I can't believe would be good for SEO.

Actually I think it is bad for SEO as opposed to just being not good.

Originally Posted by lmilesw

Actually I think it is bad for SEO as opposed to just being not good.

Well yes I agree. Sounds like it's a wordpress limitation and not a theme limitation. Hence why I couldn't find the code to change.

Thanks.