--- /dev/null
+
+use Test::More tests => 4;
+
+use strict;
+use HTML::Parser ();
+
+my $html = '<A href="foo">text</A>';
+
+my $text = '';
+my $p = HTML::Parser->new(default_h => [sub {$text .= shift;}, 'text']);
+$p->parse($html)->eof;
+is($text, $html);
+
+$text = '';
+$p->handler(start => "");
+$p->parse($html)->eof;
+is($text, 'text</A>');
+
+$text = '';
+$p->handler(end => 0);
+$p->parse($html)->eof;
+is($text, 'text');
+
+$text = '';
+$p->handler(start => undef);
+$p->parse($html)->eof;
+is($text, '<A href="foo">text');