diff --git a/example/lib/main.dart b/example/lib/main.dart
index d3467c0cf4..29e621b209 100644
--- a/example/lib/main.dart
+++ b/example/lib/main.dart
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ const htmlData = """
       <tr><td>fData</td><td>fData</td><td>fData</td></tr>
       </tfoot>
       </table>
-      <h3>Custom Element Support:</h3>
+      <h3>Custom Element Support (inline: <bird></bird> and as block):</h3>
       <flutter></flutter>
       <flutter horizontal></flutter>
       <h3>SVG support:</h3>
@@ -121,7 +121,6 @@ const htmlData = """
       <p>
         <img alt='Google' src='https://www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/2x/googlelogo_color_92x30dp.png' />
         <a href='https://google.com'><img alt='Google' src='https://www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/2x/googlelogo_color_92x30dp.png' /></a>
-        <img alt='Alt Text of an intentionally broken image' src='https://www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/2x/googlelogo_color_92x30d' />
       </p>
       <h3>Video support:</h3>
       <video controls>
@@ -172,6 +171,9 @@ class _MyHomePageState extends State<MyHomePage> {
             "var": Style(fontFamily: 'serif'),
           },
           customRender: {
+            "bird": (RenderContext context, Widget child, attributes, _) {
+              return TextSpan(text: "🐦");
+            },
             "flutter": (RenderContext context, Widget child, attributes, _) {
               return FlutterLogo(
                 style: (attributes['horizontal'] != null)
diff --git a/lib/html_parser.dart b/lib/html_parser.dart
index edc10cd41c..d665fa73be 100644
--- a/lib/html_parser.dart
+++ b/lib/html_parser.dart
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ import 'package:html/parser.dart' as htmlparser;
 import 'package:webview_flutter/webview_flutter.dart';
 
 typedef OnTap = void Function(String url);
-typedef CustomRender = Widget Function(
+typedef CustomRender = dynamic Function(
   RenderContext context,
   Widget parsedChild,
   Map<String, String> attributes,
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ class HtmlParser extends StatelessWidget {
     );
 
     if (customRender?.containsKey(tree.name) ?? false) {
-      dynamic customRenderForElement = customRender[tree.name].call(
+      final render = customRender[tree.name].call(
         newContext,
         ContainerSpan(
           newContext: newContext,
@@ -257,16 +257,18 @@ class HtmlParser extends StatelessWidget {
         tree.attributes,
         tree.element,
       );
-
-      if (customRenderForElement != null) {
-        return WidgetSpan(
-          child: ContainerSpan(
-            newContext: newContext,
-            style: tree.style,
-            shrinkWrap: context.parser.shrinkWrap,
-            child: customRenderForElement,
-          ),
-        );
+      if (render != null) {
+        assert(render is InlineSpan || render is Widget);
+        return render is InlineSpan
+            ? render
+            : WidgetSpan(
+                child: ContainerSpan(
+                  newContext: newContext,
+                  style: tree.style,
+                  shrinkWrap: context.parser.shrinkWrap,
+                  child: render,
+                ),
+              );
       }
     }