Footnote causes text to overlap when saved as html

I added a footnote to my document, it looks ok in words.

But after i saved it as HTML and view it in IE9, the line of text that has the footnote overlaps with the next line of text.

Has anyone encountered this before?

Please refer to following screenshots:

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