diff --git a/wire/modules/Page/PageFrontEdit/PageFrontEdit.module b/wire/modules/Page/PageFrontEdit/PageFrontEdit.module
index 1b618d17..addbb05c 100644
--- a/wire/modules/Page/PageFrontEdit/PageFrontEdit.module
+++ b/wire/modules/Page/PageFrontEdit/PageFrontEdit.module
@@ -1170,27 +1170,31 @@ class PageFrontEdit extends WireData implements Module {
 			$inputfield = $this->getInputfield($page, $field);
 			$postName = $name;
 		
+			// decode entities and strip tags?
+			$decodeAndStrip = false;
+		
 			// jQuery HTML function entity encodes things like & to & even if they don't appear in the source
 			// so we determine if it's necessary to decode them here
 			if($inputfield instanceof InputfieldTextarea) {
 				if(wireInstanceOf($inputfield, 'InputfieldCKEditor')) {
-					$decode = false;
+					// ok
 				} else if(wireInstanceOf($inputfield, 'InputfieldTinyMCE')) {
 					$postName = "Inputfield_$name";
-					$decode = false;
 				} else if($field->get('contentType') >= FieldtypeTextarea::contentTypeHTML) {
-					$decode = false;
+					// ok
 				} else {
-					$decode = true;
+					// convert browser added div and break tags to newlines
+					$value = str_replace(array('<div><br></div>', '<br>', '<br />'), "\n", $value);
+					$value = str_replace(array('<div>', '</div>'), array("\n", ""), $value);
+					$decodeAndStrip = true;
 				}
 			} else if($inputfield instanceof InputfieldText) {
-				$decode = true;
-			} else {
-				$decode = false;
+				$decodeAndStrip = true;
 			}
 			
-			if($decode) {
+			if($decodeAndStrip) {
 				$value = $sanitizer->unentities($value);
+				$value = strip_tags($value);
 			}
 			
 			$input->post->$postName = $value;
@@ -1294,6 +1298,7 @@ class PageFrontEdit extends WireData implements Module {
 		if(is_object($unformatted)) $unformatted = (string) $unformatted;
 		
 		$purifyHTML = true;
+		$addBreaks = false;
 
 		if($field && $field->type instanceof FieldtypeTextarea) {
 			$contentType = (int) $field->get('contentType');
@@ -1301,7 +1306,11 @@ class PageFrontEdit extends WireData implements Module {
 			if($cls === 'InputfieldCKEditor' || $cls === 'InputfieldTinyMCE' || $contentType == 1 || $contentType == 2) {
 				// HTML is expected and allowed
 				$purifyHTML = false;
-			}
+			} else if($cls === 'InputfieldTextarea') {
+				$textformatters = $field->get('textformatters');
+				if(in_array('TextformatterNewlineBR', $textformatters)) $addBreaks = true;
+				if(in_array('TextformatterMarkdownExtra', $textformatters)) $addBreaks = true;
+			}	
 		}
 
 		if(is_string($unformatted) && $purifyHTML && (strpos($unformatted, '<') !== false || strpos($unformatted, '&') !== false)) {
@@ -1310,6 +1319,8 @@ class PageFrontEdit extends WireData implements Module {
 			$unformatted = $this->wire()->sanitizer->purify(trim($unformatted));
 		}
 		
+		if($addBreaks) $unformatted = nl2br($unformatted);
+		
 		return $unformatted;
 	}
 }