diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index cd2ba68..be38c2e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -46,6 +46,22 @@ echo String::truncate($text, strlen($text)); // "Lorem ipsum dolorem si amet, lo
 
 ```
 
+**Truncate HTML**
+
+Truncate and HTML string to word closest to a certain length
+
+```php
+use Coduo\PHPHumanizer\String;
+
+$text = '<p><b>HyperText Markup Language</b>, commonly referred to as <b>HTML</b>, is the standard <a href="/wiki/Markup_language" title="Markup language">markup language</a> used to create <a href="/wiki/Web_page" title="Web page">web pages</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Web_browser" title="Web browser">Web browsers</a> can read HTML files and render them into visible or audible web pages. HTML describes the structure of a <a href="/wiki/Website" title="Website">website</a> <a href="/wiki/Semantic" title="Semantic" class="mw-redirect">semantically</a> along with cues for presentation, making it a markup language, rather than a <a href="/wiki/Programming_language" title="Programming language">programming language</a>.</p>';
+
+echo String::truncateHtml($text, 3); // "<b>HyperText</b>"
+echo String::truncateHtml($text, 12, ''); // "HyperText Markup"
+echo String::truncateHtml($text, 50, '', '...'); // "HyperText Markup Language, commonly referred to as..."
+echo String::truncateHtml($text, 75, '<b><i><u><em><strong><a><span>', '...'); // '<b>HyperText Markup Language</b>, commonly referred to as <b>HTML</b>, is the standard <a href="/wiki/Markup_language" title="Markup language">markup...</a>'
+
+```
+
 ## Number
 
 **Ordinalize**
diff --git a/spec/Coduo/PHPHumanizer/String/WordBreakpointSpec.php b/spec/Coduo/PHPHumanizer/String/WordBreakpointSpec.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f608032
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/Coduo/PHPHumanizer/String/WordBreakpointSpec.php
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace spec\Coduo\PHPHumanizer\String;
+
+use Coduo\PHPHumanizer\String\WordBreakpoint;
+use PhpSpec\ObjectBehavior;
+use Prophecy\Argument;
+
+class WordBreakpointSpec extends ObjectBehavior
+{
+
+    function it_calculate_breakpoint_position_when_sentence_is_longer_than_characters_count()
+    {
+        $this->calculatePosition('Lorem ipsum dolorem', 2)->shouldReturn(5);
+        $this->calculatePosition('Lorem ipsum dolorem', 4)->shouldReturn(5);
+        $this->calculatePosition('Lorem ipsum dolorem', 5)->shouldReturn(5);
+        $this->calculatePosition('Lorem ipsum dolorem', 10)->shouldReturn(11);
+        $this->calculatePosition('Lorem ipsum dolorem', -2)->shouldReturn(19);
+        $this->calculatePosition('Lorem ipsum dolorem', 0)->shouldReturn(5);
+    }
+    
+    function it_calculate_breakpoint_position_when_sentence_is_shorter_than_characters_count()
+    {
+         $this->calculatePosition('Lorem ipsum dolorem', 20)->shouldReturn(19);
+    }
+    
+    function it_calculate_breakpoint_position_when_characters_count_ends_in_last_word()
+    {
+        $this->calculatePosition('Lorem ipsum', 7)->shouldReturn(11);
+    }
+
+    function it_calculate_breakpoint_position_when_characters_count_ends_in_last_space()
+    {
+        $this->calculatePosition('Lorem ipsum', 5)->shouldReturn(5);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/Coduo/PHPHumanizer/String.php b/src/Coduo/PHPHumanizer/String.php
index 3eed429..70983d3 100644
--- a/src/Coduo/PHPHumanizer/String.php
+++ b/src/Coduo/PHPHumanizer/String.php
@@ -3,7 +3,9 @@
 namespace Coduo\PHPHumanizer;
 
 use Coduo\PHPHumanizer\String\Humanize;
-use Coduo\PHPHumanizer\String\Truncate;
+use Coduo\PHPHumanizer\String\TextTruncate;
+use Coduo\PHPHumanizer\String\HtmlTruncate;
+use Coduo\PHPHumanizer\String\WordBreakpoint;
 
 class String
 {
@@ -12,6 +14,7 @@ class String
      * @param bool|true $capitalize
      * @param string $separator
      * @param array $forbiddenWords
+     * 
      * @return string
      */
     public static function humanize($text, $capitalize = true, $separator = '_', array $forbiddenWords = array())
@@ -23,10 +26,28 @@ public static function humanize($text, $capitalize = true, $separator = '_', arr
      * @param $text
      * @param $charactersCount
      * @param string $append
+     * 
      * @return string
      */
     public static function truncate($text, $charactersCount, $append = '')
     {
-        return (string) new Truncate($text, $charactersCount, $append);
+        $truncate = new TextTruncate(new WordBreakpoint(), $append);
+        
+        return $truncate->truncate($text, $charactersCount);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @param $text
+     * @param $charactersCount
+     * @param string $allowedTags
+     * @param string $append
+     * 
+     * @return string
+     */
+    public static function truncateHtml($text, $charactersCount, $allowedTags = '', $append = '')
+    {
+        $truncate = new HtmlTruncate(new WordBreakpoint(), $allowedTags, $append);
+        
+        return $truncate->truncate($text, $charactersCount);
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/Coduo/PHPHumanizer/String/Breakpoint.php b/src/Coduo/PHPHumanizer/String/Breakpoint.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..48a61e9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Coduo/PHPHumanizer/String/Breakpoint.php
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace Coduo\PHPHumanizer\String;
+
+interface Breakpoint
+{
+    /**
+     * Return the length of the truncated $text depending on the $characterCount
+     *
+     * @param string $text
+     * @param int    $charactersCount
+     * @param int    $charactersCount
+     *
+     * @return int
+     */
+    public function calculatePosition($text, $charactersCount);
+}
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diff --git a/src/Coduo/PHPHumanizer/String/HtmlTruncate.php b/src/Coduo/PHPHumanizer/String/HtmlTruncate.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5e011b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Coduo/PHPHumanizer/String/HtmlTruncate.php
@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace Coduo\PHPHumanizer\String;
+
+class HtmlTruncate implements TruncateInterface
+{
+    /**
+     * @var string
+     */
+    private $append;
+
+    /**
+     * @var string
+     */
+    private $allowedTags;
+
+    /**
+     * @var Breakpoint
+     */
+    private $breakpoint;
+
+    /**
+     * @param Breakpoint $breakpoint
+     * @param string     $allowedTags
+     * @param string     $append
+     */
+    public function __construct(Breakpoint $breakpoint, $allowedTags = '', $append = '')
+    {
+        $this->breakpoint = $breakpoint;
+        $this->append = $append;
+        $this->allowedTags = $allowedTags;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @return string
+     */
+    public function truncate($text, $charactersCount)
+    {
+        $strippedText = strip_tags($text, $this->allowedTags);
+
+        return $this->truncateHtml($strippedText, $charactersCount);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Truncates a string to the given length.  It will optionally preserve
+     * HTML tags if $is_html is set to true.
+     *
+     * Adapted from FuelPHP Str::truncate (https://github.com/fuelphp/common/blob/master/src/Str.php)
+     *
+     * @param string $string
+     * @param int $charactersCount
+     *
+     * @return string the truncated string
+     */
+    private function truncateHtml($string, $charactersCount)
+    {
+        $limit        = $charactersCount;
+        $offset       = 0;
+        $tags         = array();
+        
+        // Handle special characters.
+        preg_match_all('/&[a-z]+;/i', strip_tags($string), $matches, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE | PREG_SET_ORDER);
+        foreach ($matches as $match) {
+            if ($match[0][1] >= $limit) {
+                break;
+            }
+            $limit += (mb_strlen($match[0][0]) - 1);
+        }
+
+        // Handle all the html tags.
+        preg_match_all('/<[^>]+>([^<]*)/', $string, $matches, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE | PREG_SET_ORDER);
+        foreach ($matches as $match) {
+            if ($match[0][1] - $offset >= $limit) {
+                break;
+            }
+            
+            $tag = mb_substr(strtok($match[0][0], " \t\n\r\0\x0B>"), 1);
+            if ($tag[0] != '/') {
+                $tags[] = $tag;
+            } elseif (end($tags) == mb_substr($tag, 1)) {
+                array_pop($tags);
+            }
+            
+            $offset += $match[1][1] - $match[0][1];
+        }
+
+        $newString = mb_substr($string, 0, $limit = min(mb_strlen($string),  $this->breakpoint->calculatePosition($string, $limit + $offset)));
+        $newString .= (mb_strlen($string) > $limit ? $this->append : '');
+        $newString .= (count($tags = array_reverse($tags)) ? '</'.implode('></', $tags).'>' : '');
+        
+        return $newString;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/Coduo/PHPHumanizer/String/TextTruncate.php b/src/Coduo/PHPHumanizer/String/TextTruncate.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dd99238
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Coduo/PHPHumanizer/String/TextTruncate.php
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace Coduo\PHPHumanizer\String;
+
+class TextTruncate implements TruncateInterface
+{
+    /**
+     * @var string
+     */
+    private $append;
+
+    /**
+     * @var Breakpoint
+     */
+    private $breakpoint;
+
+    /**
+     * @param Breakpoint $breakpoint
+     * @param string $append
+     */
+    public function __construct(Breakpoint $breakpoint, $append = '')
+    {
+        $this->breakpoint = $breakpoint;
+        $this->append = $append;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @param string $text
+     * @param int $charactersCount
+     * @return string
+     */
+    public function truncate($text, $charactersCount)
+    {
+        if ($charactersCount < 0 || mb_strlen($text) <= $charactersCount) {
+            return $text;
+        }
+
+        $truncatedText = rtrim(mb_substr($text, 0, $this->breakpoint->calculatePosition($text, $charactersCount)));
+
+        return ($truncatedText === $text) ? $truncatedText : $truncatedText . $this->append;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/Coduo/PHPHumanizer/String/Truncate.php b/src/Coduo/PHPHumanizer/String/Truncate.php
index f207142..fa815fa 100644
--- a/src/Coduo/PHPHumanizer/String/Truncate.php
+++ b/src/Coduo/PHPHumanizer/String/Truncate.php
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 namespace Coduo\PHPHumanizer\String;
 
+/**
+ * @deprecated since 1.0 use Coduo\PHPHumanizer\String\TextTruncate or Coduo\PHPHumanizer\String\HtmlTruncate instead
+ */
 class Truncate
 {
     /**
@@ -44,4 +47,4 @@ public function __toString()
 
         return rtrim(mb_substr($this->text, 0, $length)).$this->append;
     }
-}
+}
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diff --git a/src/Coduo/PHPHumanizer/String/TruncateInterface.php b/src/Coduo/PHPHumanizer/String/TruncateInterface.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a6e1bb7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Coduo/PHPHumanizer/String/TruncateInterface.php
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace Coduo\PHPHumanizer\String;
+
+interface TruncateInterface 
+{
+    /**
+     * @param string $text
+     * @param int $charactersCount
+     * @return string mixed
+     */
+    public function truncate($text, $charactersCount);
+}
diff --git a/src/Coduo/PHPHumanizer/String/WordBreakpoint.php b/src/Coduo/PHPHumanizer/String/WordBreakpoint.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..de3d8e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Coduo/PHPHumanizer/String/WordBreakpoint.php
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace Coduo\PHPHumanizer\String;
+
+class WordBreakpoint implements Breakpoint
+{
+    public function calculatePosition($text, $charactersCount)
+    {
+        if ($charactersCount < 0) {
+            return mb_strlen($text);
+        }
+        
+        if ($charactersCount > mb_strlen($text)) {
+            return mb_strlen($text);
+        }
+
+        $breakpoint = mb_strpos($text, ' ', $charactersCount);
+        
+        if (false === $breakpoint) {
+            return mb_strlen($text);
+        }
+        
+        return $breakpoint;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/tests/Coduo/PHPHumanizer/Tests/StringTest.php b/tests/Coduo/PHPHumanizer/Tests/StringTest.php
index eef471a..74331c1 100644
--- a/tests/Coduo/PHPHumanizer/Tests/StringTest.php
+++ b/tests/Coduo/PHPHumanizer/Tests/StringTest.php
@@ -34,6 +34,11 @@ function test_truncate_string_to_word_closest_to_a_certain_number_of_characters(
         $this->assertEquals($expected, String::truncate($text, $charactersCount, $append));
     }
 
+    function it_truncate_string_to_word_closest_to_a_certain_number_of_characters_with_html_tags($text, $charactersCount, $allowedTags, $expected, $append = '')
+    {
+        $this->assertEquals($expected, String::truncateHtml($text, $charactersCount, $allowedTags, $append));
+    }
+
     /**
      *
      * @return array
@@ -71,11 +76,32 @@ public function truncateStringProvider()
             array($shortText, "Short...", 3,  '...'),
             array($shortText, "Short...", 4,  '...'),
             array($shortText, "Short...", 5,  '...'),
-            array($shortText, "Short...", 6,  '...'),
+            array($shortText, "Short text", 6,  '...'),
             array($shortText, "Short text", 7,  '...'),
             array($shortText, "Short text", 8,  '...'),
             array($shortText, "Short text", 9,  '...'),
             array($shortText, "Short text", 10, '...')
         );
     }
+    
+    public function truncateHtmlStringProvider()
+    {
+        $text = '<p><b>HyperText Markup Language</b>, commonly referred to as <b>HTML</b>, is the standard <a href="/wiki/Markup_language" title="Markup language">markup language</a> used to create <a href="/wiki/Web_page" title="Web page">web pages</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Web_browser" title="Web browser">Web browsers</a> can read HTML files and render them into visible or audible web pages. HTML describes the structure of a <a href="/wiki/Website" title="Website">website</a> <a href="/wiki/Semantic" title="Semantic" class="mw-redirect">semantically</a> along with cues for presentation, making it a markup language, rather than a <a href="/wiki/Programming_language" title="Programming language">programming language</a>.</p>';
+        
+        return array(
+            array($text, 3,  '<b><i><u><em><strong><a><span>',  "<b>HyperText</b>"), 
+            array($text, 12, '<b><i><u><em><strong><a><span>', "<b>HyperText Markup</b>"),
+            array($text, 30, '<b><i><u><em><strong><a><span>', "<b>HyperText Markup Language</b>, commonly"), 
+            array($text, 50, '<b><i><u><em><strong><a><span>', "<b>HyperText Markup Language</b>, commonly referred to as"),
+            array($text, 75, '<b><i><u><em><strong><a><span>', '<b>HyperText Markup Language</b>, commonly referred to as <b>HTML</b>, is the standard <a href="/wiki/Markup_language" title="Markup language">markup</a>'),
+            array($text, 100,'<b><i><u><em><strong><a><span>', '<b>HyperText Markup Language</b>, commonly referred to as <b>HTML</b>, is the standard <a href="/wiki/Markup_language" title="Markup language">markup language</a> used to create'),
+            array($text, 3  , '', "HyperText"),
+            array($text, 12 , '', "HyperText Markup"),
+            array($text, 50 , '', "HyperText Markup Language, commonly referred to as"),
+            array($text, 75 , '', "HyperText Markup Language, commonly referred to as HTML, is the standard markup"),
+            array($text, 100, '', "HyperText Markup Language, commonly referred to as HTML, is the standard markup language used to create"),
+            array($text, 50, '', "HyperText Markup Language, commonly referred to as...", '...'),
+            array($text, 75, '<b><i><u><em><strong><a><span>', '<b>HyperText Markup Language</b>, commonly referred to as <b>HTML</b>, is the standard <a href="/wiki/Markup_language" title="Markup language">markup...</a>', '...')
+        );
+    }
 }
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