diff --git a/Mf2/Parser.php b/Mf2/Parser.php
index fe5590b..1686f5f 100644
--- a/Mf2/Parser.php
+++ b/Mf2/Parser.php
@@ -1141,6 +1141,10 @@ public function parseH(\DOMElement $e, $is_backcompat = false, $has_nested_mf =
 			'type' => $mfTypes,
 			'properties' => $return
 		);
+		
+		if(trim($e->getAttribute('id')) !== '') {
+			$parsed['id'] = trim($e->getAttribute("id"));
+		}
 
 		if($this->lang) {
 			// Language
diff --git a/tests/Mf2/ParseHtmlIdTest.php b/tests/Mf2/ParseHtmlIdTest.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cb3f5b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/Mf2/ParseHtmlIdTest.php
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+<?php
+/**
+ * Tests of the parsing methods within mf2\Parser
+ */
+
+namespace Mf2\Parser\Test;
+
+use Mf2;
+use Mf2\Parser;
+use PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase;
+
+/**
+ * 
+ */
+class ParseHtmlIdTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase {
+	public function setUp() {
+		date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London');
+	}
+
+	/** as per https://github.com/microformats/microformats2-parsing/issues/44 */
+	public function testParserIdAttribute() {
+		$test = '<div class="h-feed" id="recentArticles"><h2 class="p-name">Recent Articles</h2><div class="hentry" id="article">Lorem Ipsum</div>
+		<div class="p-author h-card" id="theAuthor">Max Mustermann</div>
+		<div class="h-entry" id="">empty id should not be parsed</div>
+		<div class="h-entry" id="0">id=0 should work and not be treated false-y</div>
+		</div>';
+		$result = Mf2\parse($test);
+		$this->assertArrayHasKey('id', $result['items'][0]);
+		$this->assertEquals('recentArticles', $result['items'][0]['id']);
+		$this->assertArrayHasKey('id', $result['items'][0]['children'][0]);
+		$this->assertEquals('article', $result['items'][0]['children'][0]['id']);
+		$this->assertArrayHasKey('id', $result['items'][0]['properties']['author'][0]);
+		$this->assertEquals('theAuthor', $result['items'][0]['properties']['author'][0]['id']);
+		$this->assertArrayNotHasKey('id', $result['items'][0]['children'][1]);
+		$this->assertArrayHasKey('id', $result['items'][0]['children'][2]);
+		$this->assertEquals('0', $result['items'][0]['children'][2]['id']);
+	}
+}
+