Sharepoint 20130 Page - text editor auto populating empty div with crap -- &#8203;<br>

I'm leveraging sharepoint API calls to grab images and text from a list for use in a carousel. 

I've created a page with an empty div where I append the images and text to.

<div class="carousel-inner" ></div>

Unfortunately, Sharepoint 2013 is auto populating the empty div with:

<div class="carousel-inner" role="listbox">&#8203;<br></div> breaking the layout. 

How to prevent?????