diff --git a/types/html-minifier/html-minifier-tests.ts b/types/html-minifier/html-minifier-tests.ts
index 5cb2ffccf9..14847b1d34 100644
--- a/types/html-minifier/html-minifier-tests.ts
+++ b/types/html-minifier/html-minifier-tests.ts
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import * as HTMLMinifier from 'html-minifier';
 const minify = HTMLMinifier.minify;
 
 const result = minify('<p title="blah" id="moo">foo</p>', {
-  removeAttributeQuotes: true
+  removeAttributeQuotes: true,
+  continueOnParseError: true,
 });
 result; // '<p title=blah id=moo>foo</p>'
diff --git a/types/html-minifier/index.d.ts b/types/html-minifier/index.d.ts
index f49f533f9c..8feddc5b65 100644
--- a/types/html-minifier/index.d.ts
+++ b/types/html-minifier/index.d.ts
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-// Type definitions for html-minifier 3.5
+// Type definitions for html-minifier 4.0
 // Project: https://github.com/kangax/html-minifier, https://kangax.github.io/html-minifier
 // Definitions by: Tanguy Krotoff <https://github.com/tkrotoff>
 //                 Riku <https://github.com/rikuayanokozy>
+//                 Piotr Błażejewicz <https://github.com/peterblazejewicz>
 // Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
-// TypeScript Version: 2.2
 
 import * as UglifyJS from 'uglify-js';
 import * as CleanCSS from 'clean-css';
@@ -29,6 +29,11 @@ export interface Options {
 
     // Always collapse to 1 space (never remove it entirely). Must be used in conjunction with collapseWhitespace=true
     conservativeCollapse?: boolean;
+    /**
+     * Handle parse errors instead of aborting
+     * @default false
+     */
+    continueOnParseError?: boolean;
 
     // Arrays of regex'es that allow to support custom attribute assign expressions (e.g. '<div flex?="{{mode != cover}}"></div>')
     customAttrAssign?: RegExp[];