It seems to be working now.
So I didn’t figure out what was wrong. One workaround though was to create a duplicate of the page and remove the original. This forced the browser to load the new page with all the specifications.
Seems like a big issue for WordPress that needs to be addressed.
Answer was to put all the span tags on the same line. WordPress will automatically add a line break if you put them on separate lines.
<span style=”white-space:nowrap”>paragraph.</span><span style=”white-space:nowrap”>paragraph.</span><span style=”white-space:nowrap”>paragraph.</span>
