diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 72f9d48..cd47245 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -16,4 +16,5 @@ server.js
 chromedriver.log
 *.baseline
 *.iml
-.idea/
\ No newline at end of file
+.idea/
+.DS_Store
diff --git a/src/Parse.js b/src/Parse.js
index bad6ab2..74951ac 100644
--- a/src/Parse.js
+++ b/src/Parse.js
@@ -1077,8 +1077,12 @@ _html2canvas.Parse = function (images, options) {
   function init() {
     var stack = renderElement(element, null);
 
-    Array.prototype.slice.call(element.children, 0).forEach(function(childElement) {
-      parseElement(childElement, stack);
+    _html2canvas.Util.Children(element).forEach(function(node) {
+      if (node.nodeType === 1) {
+        parseElement(node, stack);
+      } else if (node.nodeType === 3) {
+        renderText(element, node, stack);
+      }
     });
 
     stack.backgroundColor = getCSS(document.documentElement, "backgroundColor");
diff --git a/tests/cases/child-textnodes.html b/tests/cases/child-textnodes.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ea5cafe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/cases/child-textnodes.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html>
+    <head>
+        <title>Inline text in the top element</title>
+        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
+        <script type="text/javascript" src="../test.js"></script>
+        <style>
+        span {
+            color:blue;
+        }
+        p {
+            background-color: green;
+        }
+        </style>
+
+    </head>
+    <body>
+        Some inline text <span> followed by text in span </span> followed by more inline text.
+        <p>Then a block level element.</p>
+        Then more inline text.
+    </body>
+</html>
