diff --git a/src/TerminalCharacterDecoder.cpp b/src/TerminalCharacterDecoder.cpp
index e1d49fc3..29172600 100644
--- a/src/TerminalCharacterDecoder.cpp
+++ b/src/TerminalCharacterDecoder.cpp
@@ -150,6 +150,16 @@ void HTMLDecoder::begin(QTextStream* output)
 
     QString text;
 
+    text.append("<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN\"\n");
+    text.append("\"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd\">\n");
+    text.append("<html xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">\n");
+    text.append("<head>\n");
+    text.append("<title>Konsole output</title>\n");
+    text.append("<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html;charset=utf-8\" />\n");
+    text.append("</head>\n");
+    text.append("<body>\n");
+    text.append("<div>\n");
+
     //open monospace span
     openSpan(text, "font-family:monospace");
 
@@ -163,6 +173,9 @@ void HTMLDecoder::end()
     QString text;
 
     closeSpan(text);
+    text.append("</div>\n");
+    text.append("</body>\n");
+    text.append("</html>\n");
 
     *_output << text;
 
@@ -257,7 +270,7 @@ void HTMLDecoder::decodeLine(const Character* const characters, int count, LineP
     }
 
     //start new line
-    text.append("<br>");
+    text.append("<br />");
 
     *_output << text;
 }
