diff --git a/src/HtmlUtils.js b/src/HtmlUtils.js
index cc302e24e5..13b3f3094f 100644
--- a/src/HtmlUtils.js
+++ b/src/HtmlUtils.js
@@ -85,11 +85,6 @@ export function charactersToImageNode(alt, useSvg, ...unicode) {
 
 
 export function processHtmlForSending(html: string): string {
-    // Replace "<br>\n" with "<br>" because the \n is redundant and causes an
-    // extra newline per line within `<pre>` tags.
-    // This is a workaround for a bug in draft-js-export-html:
-    //   https://github.com/sstur/draft-js-export-html/issues/62
-    html = html.replace(/\<br\>\n/g, '<br>');
 
     const contentDiv = document.createElement('div');
     contentDiv.innerHTML = html;
@@ -103,6 +98,14 @@ export function processHtmlForSending(html: string): string {
         const element = contentDiv.children[i];
         if (element.tagName.toLowerCase() === 'p') {
             contentHTML += element.innerHTML + '<br />';
+        } else if (element.tagName.toLowerCase() === 'pre') {
+            // Replace "<br>\n" with "<br>" because the \n is redundant and causes an
+            // extra newline per line within `<pre>` tags.
+            // This is a workaround for a bug in draft-js-export-html:
+            //   https://github.com/sstur/draft-js-export-html/issues/62
+            contentHTML += '<pre>' +
+                element.innerHTML.replace(/<br>\n/g, '\n').trim() +
+                '</pre>';
         } else {
             const temp = document.createElement('div');
             temp.appendChild(element.cloneNode(true));