diff --git a/newspaper/parsers.py b/newspaper/parsers.py
index f81c7177..c40e09d6 100644
--- a/newspaper/parsers.py
+++ b/newspaper/parsers.py
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ def nodeToString(cls, node):
         """`decode` is needed at the end because `etree.tostring`
         returns a python bytestring
         """
-        return lxml.etree.tostring(node).decode()
+        return lxml.etree.tostring(node, method='html').decode()
 
     @classmethod
     def replaceTag(cls, node, tag):