diff --git a/src/nodes/html.ts b/src/nodes/html.ts
index 853f02c..20a86e0 100644
--- a/src/nodes/html.ts
+++ b/src/nodes/html.ts
@@ -248,6 +248,10 @@ export default class HTMLElement extends Node {
 	 * @return {string} text content
 	 */
 	public get rawText() {
+		// https://github.com/taoqf/node-html-parser/issues/249
+		if (/br/i.test(this.rawTagName)) {
+			return '\n';
+		}
 		return this.childNodes.reduce((pre, cur) => {
 			return (pre += cur.rawText);
 		}, '');
diff --git a/test/tests/issues/249.js b/test/tests/issues/249.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3c4c1f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/tests/issues/249.js
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+const { parse } = require('@test/test-target');
+
+describe.only('issue 244', function () {
+	it('br in innertext should turn into \\n', function () {
+		const html = `<div>Hello<br>World</div>`;
+		const root = parse(html);
+		const div = root.querySelector('div');
+		div.innerText.should.eql(`Hello
+World`);
+	});
+});