diff --git a/craft/src/components/basic/Heading.toHtml.test.ts b/craft/src/components/basic/Heading.toHtml.test.ts
index 1236510..298820b 100644
--- a/craft/src/components/basic/Heading.toHtml.test.ts
+++ b/craft/src/components/basic/Heading.toHtml.test.ts
@@ -154,3 +154,10 @@ describe('Heading.toHtml inline rich text (#46)', () => {
 test('Heading default colour is the text token', () => {
   expect((Heading as any).craft.props.style.color).toBe('var(--wsb-text)');
 });
+
+describe('Heading.toHtml newlines (canvas parity)', () => {
+  test('plain text newlines become <br>, like the editor canvas', () => {
+    const { html } = (Heading as any).toHtml({ text: 'a\nb', level: 'h2' }, '');
+    expect(html).toContain('a<br>b');
+  });
+});
diff --git a/craft/src/components/basic/Heading.tsx b/craft/src/components/basic/Heading.tsx
index dab636f..8ebe900 100644
--- a/craft/src/components/basic/Heading.tsx
+++ b/craft/src/components/basic/Heading.tsx
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 import React, { CSSProperties } from 'react';
 import { useNode, UserComponent } from '@craftjs/core';
 import { cssPropsToString } from '../../utils/style-helpers';
-import { escapeHtml } from '../../utils/escape';
-import { resolveInlineHtml } from '../../utils/inline-html';
+import { resolveInlineHtml, textToInlineHtml } from '../../utils/inline-html';
 import { tokenRef } from '../../utils/tokens';
 import { useInlineEditable } from './useInlineEditable';
 
@@ -102,7 +101,7 @@ Heading.craft = {
 
 (Heading as any).toHtml = (props: HeadingProps, _childrenHtml: string) => {
   const tag = sanitizeHeadingLevel(props.level);
-  const safeText = resolveInlineHtml(props.text, props.html) ?? escapeHtml(props.text || '');
+  const safeText = resolveInlineHtml(props.text, props.html) ?? textToInlineHtml(props.text || '');
   const styleStr = cssPropsToString(props.style);
   return { html: `<${tag}${styleStr ? ` style="${styleStr}"` : ''}>${safeText}</${tag}>` };
 };
diff --git a/craft/src/components/basic/TextBlock.toHtml.test.ts b/craft/src/components/basic/TextBlock.toHtml.test.ts
index 564d1e5..be03998 100644
--- a/craft/src/components/basic/TextBlock.toHtml.test.ts
+++ b/craft/src/components/basic/TextBlock.toHtml.test.ts
@@ -117,3 +117,10 @@ describe('TextBlock.toHtml design tokens (#44)', () => {
     for (const hex of ["#3f3f46"]) expect(lower, `old ${hex}`).not.toContain(hex);
   });
 });
+
+describe('TextBlock.toHtml newlines (canvas parity)', () => {
+  test('plain text newlines become <br>, like the editor canvas (textToInlineHtml)', () => {
+    const { html } = toHtml({ text: 'a\n\nb <i>' }, '');
+    expect(html).toBe('<p>a<br><br>b &lt;i&gt;</p>');
+  });
+});
diff --git a/craft/src/components/basic/TextBlock.tsx b/craft/src/components/basic/TextBlock.tsx
index 94ec5fb..16539b3 100644
--- a/craft/src/components/basic/TextBlock.tsx
+++ b/craft/src/components/basic/TextBlock.tsx
@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ import React, { CSSProperties } from 'react';
 import { tokenRef } from '../../utils/tokens';
 import { useNode, UserComponent } from '@craftjs/core';
 import { cssPropsToString } from '../../utils/style-helpers';
-import { escapeHtml } from '../../utils/escape';
-import { resolveInlineHtml } from '../../utils/inline-html';
+import { resolveInlineHtml, textToInlineHtml } from '../../utils/inline-html';
 import { useInlineEditable } from './useInlineEditable';
 
 interface TextBlockProps {
@@ -94,6 +93,6 @@ TextBlock.craft = {
 
 (TextBlock as any).toHtml = (props: TextBlockProps, _childrenHtml: string) => {
   const styleStr = cssPropsToString(props.style);
-  const escapedText = resolveInlineHtml(props.text, props.html) ?? escapeHtml(props.text || '');
+  const escapedText = resolveInlineHtml(props.text, props.html) ?? textToInlineHtml(props.text || '');
   return { html: `<p${styleStr ? ` style="${styleStr}"` : ''}>${escapedText}</p>` };
 };
diff --git a/craft/src/utils/responsive-style.test.ts b/craft/src/utils/responsive-style.test.ts
index 6b6d636..e20622f 100644
--- a/craft/src/utils/responsive-style.test.ts
+++ b/craft/src/utils/responsive-style.test.ts
@@ -205,10 +205,10 @@ describe('responsiveCssForNode', () => {
 
 import { dropBlankStyle as _dropBlankStyle } from './responsive-style';
 describe('dropBlankStyle (canvas == exporter: blanks are not declarations)', () => {
-  it('drops "", null, undefined; keeps 0 and real values', () => {
+  test('drops "", null, undefined; keeps 0 and real values', () => {
     expect(_dropBlankStyle({ padding: '20px', paddingTop: '', a: null, b: undefined, opacity: 0, zIndex: '0' } as any)).toEqual({ padding: '20px', opacity: 0, zIndex: '0' });
   });
-  it('returns the same object when nothing is blank, and passes non-objects through', () => {
+  test('returns the same object when nothing is blank, and passes non-objects through', () => {
     const s = { color: 'red' };
     expect(_dropBlankStyle(s)).toBe(s);
     expect(_dropBlankStyle(undefined)).toBeUndefined();