diff --git a/src/PhpWord/Writer/HTML/Element/Table.php b/src/PhpWord/Writer/HTML/Element/Table.php
index c8813a67f9..9027603b8f 100644
--- a/src/PhpWord/Writer/HTML/Element/Table.php
+++ b/src/PhpWord/Writer/HTML/Element/Table.php
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ public function write()
                     $cellTag = $tblHeader ? 'th' : 'td';
                     $content .= "<{$cellTag}>" . PHP_EOL;
                     $content .= $writer->write();
-                    $content .= '</td>' . PHP_EOL;
+                    $content .= "</{$cellTag}>" . PHP_EOL;
                 }
                 $content .= '</tr>' . PHP_EOL;
             }