diff --git a/lib/behat/form_field/behat_form_editor.php b/lib/behat/form_field/behat_form_editor.php
index acc00513254..89ab42bd542 100644
--- a/lib/behat/form_field/behat_form_editor.php
+++ b/lib/behat/form_field/behat_form_editor.php
@@ -93,7 +93,60 @@ class behat_form_editor extends behat_form_textarea {
      * @return bool The provided value matches the field value?
      */
     public function matches($expectedvalue) {
-        // A text editor may silently wrap the content in p tags (or not). Neither is an error.
-        return $this->text_matches($expectedvalue) || $this->text_matches('<p>' . $expectedvalue . '</p>');
+        // Fetch the actual value to save fetching it multiple times.
+        $actualvalue = $this->get_value();
+
+        if ($this->text_matches($expectedvalue, $actualvalue)) {
+            // The text is an exact match already.
+            return true;
+        }
+
+        if ($this->text_matches("<p>{$expectedvalue}</p>", $actualvalue)) {
+            // A text editor may silently wrap the content in p tags.
+            return true;
+        }
+
+        // Standardise both the expected value and the actual field value.
+        // We are likely dealing with HTML content, given this is an editor.
+        $expectedvalue = $this->standardise_html($expectedvalue);
+        $actualvalue = $this->standardise_html($actualvalue);
+
+        // Note: We don't need to worry about the floats here that we care about in text_matches.
+        // That condition isn't relevant to the content of an editor.
+        if ($expectedvalue === $actualvalue) {
+            return true;
+        }
+
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Standardises the HTML content for comparison.
+     *
+     * @param string $html The HTML content to standardise
+     * @return string The standardised HTML content
+     */
+    protected function standardise_html(string $html): string {
+        $document = new DOMDocument();
+        $errorstate = libxml_use_internal_errors(true);
+
+        // Format the whitespace nicely.
+        $document->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
+        $document->formatOutput = true;
+
+        // Wrap the content in a DIV element so that it is not parsed weirdly.
+        // Note: We must remove newlines too because DOMDocument does not do so, despite preserveWhiteSpace being false.
+        // Unfortunately this is slightly limited in that it will also remove newlines from <pre> content and similar.
+        $document->loadHTML(str_replace("\n", "", "<div>{$html}</div>"), LIBXML_HTML_NOIMPLIED | LIBXML_HTML_NODEFDTD);
+        $document->normalizeDocument();
+        libxml_clear_errors();
+        libxml_use_internal_errors($errorstate);
+
+        // Save the content of the 'div' element, removing the <div> and </div> tags at the start and end.
+        return trim(substr(
+            $document->saveHTML($document->getElementsByTagName('div')->item(0)),
+            5,
+            -6
+        ));
     }
 }
diff --git a/lib/behat/form_field/behat_form_field.php b/lib/behat/form_field/behat_form_field.php
index c834b7bdb35..5f58d2aab1a 100644
--- a/lib/behat/form_field/behat_form_field.php
+++ b/lib/behat/form_field/behat_form_field.php
@@ -244,18 +244,21 @@ class behat_form_field implements behat_session_interface {
      * Checks if the provided text matches the field value.
      *
      * @param string $expectedvalue
+     * @param string|null $actualvalue The actual value. If not specified, this will be fetched from $this->get_value().
      * @return bool
      */
-    protected function text_matches($expectedvalue) {
+    protected function text_matches($expectedvalue, ?string $actualvalue = null): bool {
+        $actualvalue = $actualvalue ?? $this->get_value();
+
         // Non strict string comparison.
-        if (trim($expectedvalue) == trim($this->get_value())) {
+        if (trim($expectedvalue) == trim($actualvalue)) {
             return true;
         }
 
         // Do one more matching attempt for floats that are valid with current decsep in use
         // (let's continue non strict comparing them as strings, but once unformatted).
         $expectedfloat = unformat_float(trim($expectedvalue), true);
-        $actualfloat = unformat_float(trim($this->get_value()), true);
+        $actualfloat = unformat_float(trim($actualvalue), true);
         // If they aren't null or false, then we are good to be compared (basically is_numeric()).
         $goodfloats = !is_null($expectedfloat) && ($expectedfloat !== false) &&
             !is_null($actualfloat) && ($actualfloat !== false);
diff --git a/lib/tests/behat/behat_general.php b/lib/tests/behat/behat_general.php
index 18103b8d9ac..b2184d10ec4 100644
--- a/lib/tests/behat/behat_general.php
+++ b/lib/tests/behat/behat_general.php
@@ -1776,7 +1776,17 @@ EOF;
      * @param   string $keys The key, or list of keys, to type
      */
     public function i_type(string $keys): void {
-        behat_base::type_keys($this->getSession(), str_split($keys));
+        // Certain keys, such as the newline character, must be converted to the appropriate character code.
+        // Without this, keys will behave differently depending on the browser.
+        $keylist = array_map(function($key): string {
+            switch ($key) {
+                case '\n':
+                    behat_keys::ENTER;
+                default:
+                    return $key;
+            }
+        }, str_split($keys));
+        behat_base::type_keys($this->getSession(), $keylist);
     }
 
     /**