diff --git a/bindings/js/go/minify.go b/bindings/js/go/minify.go
index c24677823..b43c60df4 100644
--- a/bindings/js/go/minify.go
+++ b/bindings/js/go/minify.go
@@ -109,6 +109,18 @@ func parseOptions(opts *C.MinifyOptions) (minifyOptions, error) {
 	}, nil
 }
 
+func toSet(tags []string) map[string]struct{} {
+	if len(tags) == 0 {
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	m := make(map[string]struct{}, len(tags))
+	for _, t := range tags {
+		m[strings.ToLower(t)] = struct{}{}
+	}
+	return m
+}
+
 func newMinifier(opts minifyOptions) (*minify.M, error) {
 	m := minify.New()
 
@@ -125,6 +137,7 @@ func newMinifier(opts minifyOptions) (*minify.M, error) {
 		KeepQuotes:              opts.HTMLKeepQuotes,
 		KeepSpecialComments:     opts.HTMLKeepSpecialComments,
 		KeepWhitespace:          opts.HTMLKeepWhitespace,
+		PreserveWhitespaceTags:  toSet(opts.PreserveWhitespaceTags),
 	}
 	jsMinifier := &js.Minifier{
 		Precision:    opts.JSPrecision,
diff --git a/html/html.go b/html/html.go
index 938b794a4..5f1c26b54 100644
--- a/html/html.go
+++ b/html/html.go
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"bytes"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
+	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/tdewolff/minify/v2"
 	"github.com/tdewolff/parse/v2"
@@ -61,6 +62,7 @@ type Minifier struct {
 	KeepQuotes              bool
 	KeepWhitespace          bool
 	TemplateDelims          [2]string
+	PreserveWhitespaceTags  map[string]struct{}
 }
 
 // Minify minifies HTML data, it reads from r and writes to w.
@@ -68,6 +70,23 @@ func Minify(m *minify.M, w io.Writer, r io.Reader, params map[string]string) err
 	return (&Minifier{}).Minify(m, w, r, params)
 }
 
+func (o *Minifier) isWhitespaceTag(t Token) bool {
+	if o.PreserveWhitespaceTags == nil {
+		return false
+	}
+
+	if t.TokenType != html.StartTagToken && t.TokenType != html.EndTagToken {
+		return false
+	}
+
+	tag := strings.ToLower(string(t.Data))
+	tag = strings.TrimPrefix(tag, "<")
+	tag = strings.TrimPrefix(tag, "</")
+
+	_, ok := o.PreserveWhitespaceTags[strings.ToLower(string(tag))]
+	return ok
+}
+
 // Minify minifies HTML data, it reads from r and writes to w.
 func (o *Minifier) Minify(m *minify.M, w io.Writer, r io.Reader, _ map[string]string) error {
 	var rawTagHash Hash
@@ -80,7 +99,7 @@ func (o *Minifier) Minify(m *minify.M, w io.Writer, r io.Reader, _ map[string]st
 	}
 
 	omitSpace := true // if true the next leading space is omitted
-	inPre, inTemplate := false, false
+	inWhitespacePreservingMode, inTemplate := false, false
 
 	attrMinifyBuffer := buffer.NewWriter(make([]byte, 0, 64))
 	attrByteBuffer := make([]byte, 0, 64)
@@ -180,7 +199,7 @@ func (o *Minifier) Minify(m *minify.M, w io.Writer, r io.Reader, _ map[string]st
 				} else {
 					w.Write(t.Data)
 				}
-			} else if inPre {
+			} else if inWhitespacePreservingMode {
 				w.Write(t.Data)
 				// omitSpace = true after block element
 			} else {
@@ -260,8 +279,8 @@ func (o *Minifier) Minify(m *minify.M, w io.Writer, r io.Reader, _ map[string]st
 				omitSpace = true // EndTagToken
 			}
 
-			if t.Hash == Pre {
-				inPre = t.TokenType == html.StartTagToken
+			if t.Hash == Pre || o.isWhitespaceTag(t) {
+				inWhitespacePreservingMode = t.TokenType == html.StartTagToken
 			} else if t.Hash == Template {
 				inTemplate = t.TokenType == html.StartTagToken
 			}
diff --git a/html/html_test.go b/html/html_test.go
index eb5d34eca..a4a0ddb79 100644
--- a/html/html_test.go
+++ b/html/html_test.go
@@ -526,6 +526,44 @@ func TestMinifyErrors(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestHTMLPreserveWhitespaceTags(t *testing.T) {
+	htmlTests := []struct {
+		html     string
+		expected string
+	}{
+		{
+			"<custom-component>\n    foo\n    bar\n</custom-component>",
+			"<custom-component>\n    foo\n    bar\n</custom-component>",
+		},
+		{
+			"<strip-component>\n    foo\n    bar\n</strip-component>",
+			"<strip-component>foo\nbar</strip-component>",
+		},
+		{
+			"<pre>\n    foo\n    bar\n</pre>",
+			"<pre>\n    foo\n    bar\n</pre>",
+		},
+	}
+
+	m := minify.New()
+	m.AddFunc("text/css", css.Minify)
+
+	htmlMinifier := &Minifier{
+		PreserveWhitespaceTags: map[string]struct{}{
+			"custom-component": {},
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, tt := range htmlTests {
+		t.Run(tt.html, func(t *testing.T) {
+			r := bytes.NewBufferString(tt.html)
+			w := &bytes.Buffer{}
+			err := htmlMinifier.Minify(m, w, r, nil)
+			test.Minify(t, tt.html, err, w.String(), tt.expected)
+		})
+	}
+}
+
 func TestMinifyErrorPropagation(t *testing.T) {
 	errorTests := []struct {
 		html string