diff --git a/plugins/talk-plugin-rich-text-pell/client/utils.js b/plugins/talk-plugin-rich-text-pell/client/utils.js
index bb71c2b4f..6155fbfb2 100644
--- a/plugins/talk-plugin-rich-text-pell/client/utils.js
+++ b/plugins/talk-plugin-rich-text-pell/client/utils.js
@@ -1,11 +1,20 @@
 export function htmlNormalizer(htmlInput) {
-  const str = htmlInput;
+  let str = htmlInput;
   // We are normalizing the input from contenteditable of each browser, also removing unnecesary html tags
   // https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/Editable_content#Differences_in_markup_generation
-  console.log(htmlInput);
-  return str
-    .replace(/<p>/g, '<br>')
-    .replace(/<\/p>/g, '')
-    .replace(/<div>/g, '<br>')
-    .replace(/<\/div>/g, '');
+
+  // Old browsers uses `p` normalize to `div` instead.
+  str = str
+    .replace(/<p>/g, '<div>') // IE and old browsers outputs <p> instead of <div>s
+    .replace(/<\/p>/g, '</div>'); // IE and old browsers outputs <p> instead of <div>s
+
+  // Remove first opening tag, otherwise
+  // with the following transformation below
+  // we might add an unintended first empty line.
+  if (str.startsWith('<div>')) {
+    str = str.replace('<div>', '');
+  }
+
+  // Normalize <div>s to <br>.
+  return str.replace(/<div>/g, '<br>').replace(/<\/div>/g, '');
 }