diff --git a/src/danog/MadelineProto/TL/Conversion/BotAPI.php b/src/danog/MadelineProto/TL/Conversion/BotAPI.php
index d6c58bd7..eb5b8a01 100644
--- a/src/danog/MadelineProto/TL/Conversion/BotAPI.php
+++ b/src/danog/MadelineProto/TL/Conversion/BotAPI.php
@@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ trait BotAPI
 
     public function html_fixtags($text)
     {
-        preg_match_all("#(.*?)(<(a|b|strong|em|i|code|pre)[^>]*>)(.*?)(<\/\\3>)(.*)?#is", $text, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);
+        preg_match_all("#(.*?)(<(a|b|strong|em|i|code|pre)[^>]*>)([^<]*?)(<\/\\3>)(.*)?#is", $text, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);
         if ($matches) {
             $last = count($matches) - 1;
             foreach ($matches as $val) {