[Issue with <br> and Text Plugin]

Replace br with some tag and then replace again that with br and then give span some css

      

$demoText.html( $demoText.html().replace('<br>', "^").replace(/./g, "<span>$&</span>").replace(/\s/g, " ").replace('^', "<br>"));
jQuery('br').parent('span').addClass('test');

          

span.test {
    display: block !important;
    height: 0;
}