diff --git a/MANIFEST b/MANIFEST
index 05050e2..d6f14bc 100644
--- a/MANIFEST
+++ b/MANIFEST
@@ -18,5 +18,6 @@ t/09-callbacks.t
t/10-uri.t
t/11-rebase.t
t/12-ruleset.t
+t/13-minimal.t
t/pod-coverage.t
t/pod.t
diff --git a/lib/HTML/Laundry/Rules/Minimal.pm b/lib/HTML/Laundry/Rules/Minimal.pm
index e6b17b8..941b5ce 100644
--- a/lib/HTML/Laundry/Rules/Minimal.pm
+++ b/lib/HTML/Laundry/Rules/Minimal.pm
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ a, b, blockquote, code, em, i, li, ol, p, pre, strong, u, and ul
sub acceptable_e {
my $self = shift;
my @acceptable = qw(
- a b blockquote code em i li ol p pre strong u ul
+ a b br blockquote code em i li ol p pre strong u ul
);
my %acceptable = map { ( $_, 1 ) } @acceptable;
return \%acceptable;
diff --git a/t/12-ruleset.t b/t/12-ruleset.t
index 05aef03..8457ff3 100644
--- a/t/12-ruleset.t
+++ b/t/12-ruleset.t
@@ -43,5 +43,4 @@ is( $l7->clean( $str ), $str,
my $l8 = HTML::Laundry->new({});
ok( $l8, 'Created Laundry object with no argument' );
is( $l8->clean( $str ), $str,
- 'Ruleset defaults to HTML::Laundry::Rules::Default' );
-
\ No newline at end of file
+ 'Ruleset defaults to HTML::Laundry::Rules::Default' );
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/t/13-minimal.t b/t/13-minimal.t
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..effd8d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/13-minimal.t
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+use Test::More tests => 158;
+
+require_ok('HTML::Laundry');
+require_ok('HTML::Laundry::Rules::Minimal');
+
+my $l1 = HTML::Laundry->new({ notidy => 1,
+ rules => 'HTML::Laundry::Rules::Minimal' });
+
+my @ok = qw( a b br blockquote code em i li ol p pre strong u ul );
+my %ok = map { $_ => 1 } @ok;
+
+my @e = (
+ 'a', 'abbr', 'acronym', 'address', 'area', 'b', 'bdo', 'big', 'blockquote',
+ 'br', 'button', 'caption', 'center', 'cite', 'code', 'col', 'colgroup', 'dd',
+ 'del', 'dfn', 'dir', 'div', 'dl', 'dt', 'em', 'fieldset', 'font', 'form',
+ 'h1', 'h2', 'h3', 'h4', 'h5', 'h6', 'hr', 'i', 'img', 'input', 'ins', 'kbd',
+ 'label', 'legend', 'li', 'map', 'menu', 'ol', 'optgroup', 'option', 'p',
+ 'pre', 'q', 's', 'samp', 'select', 'small', 'span', 'strike', 'strong',
+ 'sub', 'sup', 'table', 'tbody', 'td', 'textarea', 'tfoot', 'th', 'thead',
+ 'tr', 'tt', 'u', 'ul', 'var', 'wbr'
+);
+
+foreach my $e ( @e ) {
+ if ( $ok{$e} and $e ne 'br' ) {
+ # The only allowed empty element in this ruleset is
+ is( $l1->clean("<$e>"), "<$e>", "element $e is not sanitized");
+ } elsif ( $ok{$e} ) {
+ is( $l1->clean("<$e>"), "<$e />", "element $e is not sanitized");
+ } else {
+ is( $l1->clean("<$e>"), "", "element $e is sanitized");
+ }
+}
+
+my @a = ( 'abbr', 'accept', 'accept-charset', 'accesskey', 'action', 'align', 'alt',
+ 'axis', 'border', 'cellpadding', 'cellspacing', 'char', 'charoff', 'charset',
+ 'checked', 'cite', 'class', 'clear', 'color', 'cols', 'colspan', 'compact',
+ 'coords', 'datetime', 'dir', 'disabled', 'enctype', 'for', 'frame',
+ 'headers', 'height', 'href', 'hreflang', 'hspace', 'id', 'ismap', 'label',
+ 'lang', 'longdesc', 'maxlength', 'media', 'method', 'multiple', 'name',
+ 'nohref', 'noshade', 'nowrap', 'prompt', 'readonly', 'rel', 'rev', 'rows',
+ 'rowspan', 'rules', 'scope', 'selected', 'shape', 'size', 'span', 'src',
+ 'start', 'summary', 'tabindex', 'target', 'title', 'type', 'usemap',
+ 'valign', 'value', 'vspace', 'width', 'xml:lang' );
+
+ok( ! $l1->clean(''), '