diff --git a/test/cli_test-samples.js b/test/cli_test-samples.js
index 0c0253fb4a..4a233320be 100644
--- a/test/cli_test-samples.js
+++ b/test/cli_test-samples.js
@@ -87,3 +87,16 @@ test('sequence png', function(t) {
     });
 })
 
+test('flowchart svg text', function(t) {
+  t.plan(1);
+  var args = [ "--svg",
+    "--outputDir=" + test_dir,
+    "--outputSuffix=.actual",
+    test_dir+"flowchart_text.mmd",
+  ]
+  exec_mermaid(args.join(" "),
+    function(error, stdout, stderr) {
+      t.notOk(stderr, 'no error')
+      t.end()
+    });
+})
diff --git a/test/fixtures/samples/flowchart_text.mmd b/test/fixtures/samples/flowchart_text.mmd
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0d82cee4e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/fixtures/samples/flowchart_text.mmd
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+graph TD
+    A[label]
+    B[very very very long long long long-long-long text]
+    A--test-->B