diff --git a/web/react/components/create_post.jsx b/web/react/components/create_post.jsx
index 191be9bf8e..a534e495d9 100644
--- a/web/react/components/create_post.jsx
+++ b/web/react/components/create_post.jsx
@@ -31,9 +31,7 @@ module.exports = React.createClass({
 
         post.message = this.state.messageText;
 
-        var repRegex = new RegExp("<br>", "g");
-        if (post.message.replace(repRegex, " ").trim().length === 0
-                && this.state.previews.length === 0) {
+        if (post.message.trim().length === 0 && this.state.previews.length === 0) {
             return;
         }
 
diff --git a/web/react/utils/utils.jsx b/web/react/utils/utils.jsx
index e570886143..fb4f3a34e4 100644
--- a/web/react/utils/utils.jsx
+++ b/web/react/utils/utils.jsx
@@ -366,9 +366,6 @@ module.exports.textToJsx = function(text, options) {
     if (options && options['singleline']) {
         var repRegex = new RegExp("\n", "g");
         text = text.replace(repRegex, " ");
-    } else {
-        var repRegex = new RegExp("\n", "g");
-        text = text.replace(repRegex, "<br>");
     }
 
     var searchTerm = ""
@@ -392,7 +389,7 @@ module.exports.textToJsx = function(text, options) {
         implicitKeywords[keywordArray[i]] = true;
     }
 
-    var lines = text.split("<br>");
+    var lines = text.split("\n");
     var urlMatcher = new LinkifyIt();
     for (var i = 0; i < lines.length; i++) {
         var line = lines[i];