diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 2fa14a9..d9bafb6 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 name = "Gumbo"
 uuid = "708ec375-b3d6-5a57-a7ce-8257bf98657a"
-version = "0.8.2"
+version = "0.8.3"
 
 [deps]
 AbstractTrees = "1520ce14-60c1-5f80-bbc7-55ef81b5835c"
diff --git a/src/manipulation.jl b/src/manipulation.jl
index e347053..03cd913 100644
--- a/src/manipulation.jl
+++ b/src/manipulation.jl
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ function text(el::HTMLElement)
     io = IOBuffer()
     for c in AbstractTrees.PreOrderDFS(el)
         if c isa HTMLText
-            print(io, c.text, ' ')
+            print(io, c.text)
         end
     end
 
diff --git a/test/manipulation.jl b/test/manipulation.jl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7557fa4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/manipulation.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+@testset "`text`" begin
+    doc = parsehtml("<em>foo</em>bar<em></em>baz")
+    @test text(doc.root) == "foobarbaz"
+
+    doc = parsehtml("<math><mrow><msub><mrow><mi>MoSe</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msub></mrow></math>")
+    @test text(doc.root) == "MoSe2"
+end
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diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
index 91cd34c..b989ede 100644
--- a/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@ include("comparison.jl")
 include("parsing.jl")
 include("traversal.jl")
 include("io.jl")
+include("manipulation.jl")
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