diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Web/HtmlStringUtilities.cs b/src/Umbraco.Web/HtmlStringUtilities.cs
index 24a643b5b0..1737aca365 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Web/HtmlStringUtilities.cs
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Web/HtmlStringUtilities.cs
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ using System.IO;
 using System.Linq;
 using System.Text;
 using System.Web;
+using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
 using HtmlAgilityPack;
 
 namespace Umbraco.Web
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@ namespace Umbraco.Web
         /// <returns>The text with text line breaks replaced with html linebreaks (<br/>)</returns>
         public string ReplaceLineBreaksForHtml(string text)
         {
-            return text.Replace("\n", "<br/>\n");
+            return Regex.Replace(text, @"(\r\n?|\n)", "<br />$0");
         }
 
         public HtmlString StripHtmlTags(string html, params string[] tags)
@@ -241,4 +242,4 @@ namespace Umbraco.Web
             }
         }
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}