From f7afdebb0331b393a157bb0874c7cf5209a9fbe3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Henri MEDOT <anrikun@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 18:51:04 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Added support for linebreaks <br /> in
 Shared\Html::addHtml()

---
 src/PhpWord/Shared/Html.php | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/PhpWord/Shared/Html.php b/src/PhpWord/Shared/Html.php
index cdc88b4396..d9a3f40ed3 100644
--- a/src/PhpWord/Shared/Html.php
+++ b/src/PhpWord/Shared/Html.php
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ protected static function parseNode($node, $element, $styles = array(), $data =
             'ul'        => array('List',        null,   null,       $styles,    $data,  3,              null),
             'ol'        => array('List',        null,   null,       $styles,    $data,  7,              null),
             'li'        => array('ListItem',    $node,  $element,   $styles,    $data,  null,           null),
+            'br'        => array('LineBreak',   null,   $element,   $styles,    null,   null,           null),
         );
 
         $newElement = null;
@@ -374,4 +375,17 @@ private static function parseStyle($attribute, $styles)
 
         return $styles;
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Parse line break
+     *
+     * @param \PhpOffice\PhpWord\Element\AbstractContainer $element
+     * @return null
+     */
+    private static function parseLineBreak($element)
+    {
+        $element->addTextBreak();
+
+        return null;
+    }
 }

From 9081ed9868f517d84a83599a5ccd4325677736a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: troosan <antoine.de.troostembergh@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 17:40:23 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] fix warning

---
 src/PhpWord/Shared/Html.php | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/PhpWord/Shared/Html.php b/src/PhpWord/Shared/Html.php
index e19c3fb6c1..d448e697e5 100644
--- a/src/PhpWord/Shared/Html.php
+++ b/src/PhpWord/Shared/Html.php
@@ -527,11 +527,11 @@ private static function mapBorderStyle($cssBorderStyle)
 
     /**
      * Parse line break
-    *
-    * @param \PhpOffice\PhpWord\Element\AbstractContainer $element
-    */
+     *
+     * @param \PhpOffice\PhpWord\Element\AbstractContainer $element
+     */
     private static function parseLineBreak($element)
     {
         $element->addTextBreak();
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}

From c079bf7f10123b3b7190c25b2deb58484da2e37a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: troosan <antoine.de.troostembergh@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 20:47:34 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] update changelog

---
 CHANGELOG.md | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5e39ed3fe4..82f1cc5963 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ This is the last version to support PHP 5.3
 - Support for Comments - @troosan #1067
 - Support for paragraph textAlignment - @troosan #1165
 - Add support for HTML underline tag <u> in addHtml - @zNightFalLz #1186
+- Add support for HTML <br> in addHtml - @anrikun @troosan #659
 - Allow to change cell width unit - guillaume-ro-fr #986
 - Allow to change the line height rule @troosan