diff --git a/pyrogram/parser/html.py b/pyrogram/parser/html.py
index af70c5cb..7ed2a5be 100644
--- a/pyrogram/parser/html.py
+++ b/pyrogram/parser/html.py
@@ -117,7 +117,8 @@ class HTML:
         self.client = client
 
     async def parse(self, text: str):
-        # Strip whitespace characters from the end of the message, but preserve closing tags
+        # Strip whitespaces from the beginning and the end, but preserve closing tags
+        text = re.sub(r"^\s*(<[\w<>=\s\"]*>)\s*", r"\1", text)
         text = re.sub(r"\s*(</[\w</>]*>)\s*$", r"\1", text)
 
         parser = Parser(self.client)