diff --git a/MarkdownLivePreview.py b/MarkdownLivePreview.py
index f7d5f78..ab7fa10 100644
--- a/MarkdownLivePreview.py
+++ b/MarkdownLivePreview.py
@@ -207,8 +207,6 @@ class MarkdownLivePreviewListener(sublime_plugin.EventListener):
             resources
         )
 
-        print(repr(html))
-
         self.phantom_sets[markdown_view.id()].update([
             sublime.Phantom(sublime.Region(0), html, sublime.LAYOUT_BLOCK,
                 lambda href: sublime.run_command('open_url', {'url': href}))
diff --git a/markdown2html.py b/markdown2html.py
index 2468b1f..d053da6 100644
--- a/markdown2html.py
+++ b/markdown2html.py
@@ -71,14 +71,15 @@ def markdown2html(markdown, basepath, re_render, resources):
 
         # FIXME: this method sucks, but can we do better?
         fixed_pre = str(code_element) \
-            .replace('\n', '<br>')\
-            .replace(' ', '<i class="space">.</i>')
+            .replace(' ', '<i class="space">.</i>') \
+            .replace('\n', '<br />')
 
         code_element.replace_with(bs4.BeautifulSoup(fixed_pre, "html.parser"))
 
     # FIXME: highlight the code using Sublime's syntax
 
-    return "<style>\n{}\n</style>\n\n{}".format(resources['stylesheet'], soup)
+    # FIXME: report that ST doesn't support <br/> but does work with <br />... WTF?
+    return "<style>\n{}\n</style>\n\n{}".format(resources['stylesheet'], soup).replace('<br/>', '<br />')
 
 def get_base64_image(path, re_render):