diff --git a/lib/src/utils/markdown.dart b/lib/src/utils/markdown.dart
index 93a37eaca..7e8ba81df 100644
--- a/lib/src/utils/markdown.dart
+++ b/lib/src/utils/markdown.dart
@@ -250,29 +250,33 @@ String markdown(
       }
     }
   }
-  if (stripPTags) {
-    ret = ret.replaceAll('<p>', '').replaceAll('</p>', '');
-  }
   ret = ret
       .trim()
       // Remove trailing linebreaks
       .replaceAll(RegExp(r'(<br />)+$'), '');
   if (convertLinebreaks) {
     // Only convert linebreaks which are not in <pre> blocks
-    ret = ret.convertLinebreaksToBr();
+    ret = ret.convertLinebreaksToBr('p');
+    // Delete other linebreaks except for pre blocks:
+    ret = ret.convertLinebreaksToBr('pre', exclude: true, replaceWith: '');
+  }
+
+  if (stripPTags) {
+    ret = ret.replaceAll('<p>', '').replaceAll('</p>', '');
   }
 
   return ret;
 }
 
 extension on String {
-  String convertLinebreaksToBr() {
-    final parts = split('pre>');
-    var convertLinebreaks = true;
+  String convertLinebreaksToBr(String tagName,
+      {bool exclude = false, String replaceWith = '<br/>'}) {
+    final parts = split('$tagName>');
+    var convertLinebreaks = exclude;
     for (var i = 0; i < parts.length; i++) {
-      if (convertLinebreaks) parts[i] = parts[i].replaceAll('\n', '<br/>');
+      if (convertLinebreaks) parts[i] = parts[i].replaceAll('\n', replaceWith);
       convertLinebreaks = !convertLinebreaks;
     }
-    return parts.join('pre>');
+    return parts.join('$tagName>');
   }
 }
diff --git a/test/markdown_test.dart b/test/markdown_test.dart
index 4e88b5a4a..cd2ef2a09 100644
--- a/test/markdown_test.dart
+++ b/test/markdown_test.dart
@@ -59,14 +59,20 @@ void main() {
           'Snape killed <span data-mx-spoiler="">Dumbledoor <strong>bold</strong></span>');
     });
     test('multiple paragraphs', () {
-      expect(markdown('Heya!\n\nBeep'), '<p>Heya!</p><br/><p>Beep</p>');
+      expect(markdown('Heya!\n\nBeep'), '<p>Heya!</p><p>Beep</p>');
     });
     test('Other block elements', () {
-      expect(markdown('# blah\n\nblubb'), '<h1>blah</h1><br/><p>blubb</p>');
+      expect(markdown('# blah\n\nblubb'), '<h1>blah</h1><p>blubb</p>');
     });
     test('linebreaks', () {
       expect(markdown('foxies\ncute'), 'foxies<br/>cute');
     });
+    test('lists', () {
+      expect(
+        markdown('So we have:\n- foxies\n- cats\n- dogs'),
+        '<p>So we have:</p><ul><li>foxies</li><li>cats</li><li>dogs</li></ul>',
+      );
+    });
     test('emotes', () {
       expect(markdown(':fox:', getEmotePacks: () => emotePacks),
           '<img data-mx-emoticon="" src="mxc://roomfox" alt=":fox:" title=":fox:" height="32" vertical-align="middle" />');
@@ -137,7 +143,7 @@ void main() {
           'The first \n codeblock\n```dart\nvoid main(){\nprint(something);\n}\n```\nAnd the second code block\n```js\nmeow\nmeow\n```',
           convertLinebreaks: true,
         ),
-        '<p>The first<br/>codeblock</p><br/><pre><code class="language-dart">void main(){\nprint(something);\n}\n</code></pre><br/><p>And the second code block</p><br/><pre><code class="language-js">meow\nmeow\n</code></pre>',
+        '<p>The first<br/>codeblock</p><pre><code class="language-dart">void main(){\nprint(something);\n}\n</code></pre><p>And the second code block</p><pre><code class="language-js">meow\nmeow\n</code></pre>',
       );
     });
   });