diff --git a/src/Html2Text.php b/src/Html2Text.php
index 0329231..c065d07 100644
--- a/src/Html2Text.php
+++ b/src/Html2Text.php
@@ -116,6 +116,8 @@ public static function getDocument(string $html): DOMDocument
$html = '' . $html . '';
}
+ $html = (string) preg_replace('/&(?![a-z]+?;)/mi', '&', $html);
+
$load_result = $doc->loadHTML($html);
if (! $load_result) {
diff --git a/tests/Html2TextTest.php b/tests/Html2TextTest.php
index a2a979e..ef4a3bc 100644
--- a/tests/Html2TextTest.php
+++ b/tests/Html2TextTest.php
@@ -14,12 +14,13 @@
$output = Html2Text::convert($input, $config);
- expect($output)->toBe($expected);
+ expect(trim($output))->toBe(trim($expected));
})->with([
'Basic' => 'basic',
'Anchor tags' => 'anchors',
'More anchor tags' => 'more-anchors',
'Break tag' => 'br',
+ 'Ampersand (&)' => 'ampersand',
'Break tags' => 'brs',
'Tables' => 'table',
'Non-breaking spaces (NBSP tag)' => 'nbsp',
diff --git a/tests/fixtures/ampersand.html b/tests/fixtures/ampersand.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..665e566
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/fixtures/ampersand.html
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+& &
diff --git a/tests/fixtures/ampersand.txt b/tests/fixtures/ampersand.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..09d480d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/fixtures/ampersand.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+& &