diff --git a/_example/wrappar.go b/_example/wrappar.go
index 69824e2..23e00a0 100644
--- a/_example/wrappar.go
+++ b/_example/wrappar.go
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 package main
 
-import ui "github.com/jrmiller82/termui"
+import ui "github.com/gizak/termui"
 
 func main() {
 
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ func main() {
 
 	p := ui.NewPar("Press q to QUIT THE DEMO. [There](fg-blue) are other things [that](fg-red) are going to fit in here I think. What do you think? Now is the time for all good [men to](bg-blue) come to the aid of their country. [This is going to be one really really really long line](fg-green) that is going to go together and stuffs and things. Let's see how this thing renders out.\n    Here is a new paragraph and stuffs and things. There should be a tab indent at the beginning of the paragraph. Let's see if that worked as well.")
 	p.WrapLength = 48 // this should be at least p.Width - 2
-	p.Height = 30
+	p.Height = 20
 	p.Width = 50
 	p.Y = 2
 	p.X = 20
@@ -28,5 +28,4 @@ func main() {
 	})
 
 	ui.Loop()
-
 }
diff --git a/helper.go b/helper.go
index 840c9bb..e563888 100644
--- a/helper.go
+++ b/helper.go
@@ -212,3 +212,11 @@ func DTrimTxCls(cs []Cell, w int) []Cell {
 
 	return rt
 }
+
+func CellsToStr(cs []Cell) string {
+	str := ""
+	for _, c := range cs {
+		str += string(c.Ch)
+	}
+	return str
+}
diff --git a/par.go b/par.go
index a60262c..354519d 100644
--- a/par.go
+++ b/par.go
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ type Par struct {
 	Text        string
 	TextFgColor Attribute
 	TextBgColor Attribute
-	WrapLength  uint
+	WrapLength  int // words wrap limit. Note it may not work properly with multi-width char
 }
 
 // NewPar returns a new *Par with given text as its content.
@@ -35,11 +35,13 @@ func (p *Par) Buffer() Buffer {
 	buf := p.Block.Buffer()
 
 	fg, bg := p.TextFgColor, p.TextBgColor
-	cs := []Cell{}
-	if p.WrapLength < 1 {
-		cs = DefaultTxBuilder.Build(p.Text, fg, bg)
-	} else {
-		cs = DefaultTxBuilder.BuildWrap(p.Text, fg, bg, p.WrapLength)
+	cs := DefaultTxBuilder.Build(p.Text, fg, bg)
+
+	// wrap if WrapLength set
+	if p.WrapLength < 0 {
+		cs = wrapTx(cs, p.Width-2)
+	} else if p.WrapLength > 0 {
+		cs = wrapTx(cs, p.WrapLength)
 	}
 
 	y, x, n := 0, 0, 0
diff --git a/textbuilder.go b/textbuilder.go
index 7d45208..2627098 100644
--- a/textbuilder.go
+++ b/textbuilder.go
@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
 package termui
 
 import (
-	"github.com/mitchellh/go-wordwrap" // LEFT UP TO PKG MAINTAINER TO DECIDE HOW TO VENDOR; is MIT LICENSED
 	"regexp"
 	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/mitchellh/go-wordwrap"
 )
 
 // TextBuilder is a minimal interface to produce text []Cell using specific syntax (markdown).
 type TextBuilder interface {
 	Build(s string, fg, bg Attribute) []Cell
-	BuildWrap(s string, fg, bg Attribute, wl uint) []Cell
 }
 
 // DefaultTxBuilder is set to be MarkdownTxBuilder.
@@ -186,20 +186,15 @@ func (mtb *MarkdownTxBuilder) parse(str string) {
 	mtb.plainTx = normTx
 }
 
-// BuildWrap implements TextBuilder interface and will naively wrap the plain
-// text string to length specified by wl while preserving the fg and bg
-// attributes
-func (mtb MarkdownTxBuilder) BuildWrap(s string, fg, bg Attribute, wl uint) []Cell {
-
-	// get the []Cell from plain Build
-	tmpCell := mtb.Build(s, fg, bg)
+func wrapTx(cs []Cell, wl int) []Cell {
+	tmpCell := make([]Cell, len(cs))
+	copy(tmpCell, cs)
 
 	// get the plaintext
-	mtb.parse(s)
-	plain := string(mtb.plainTx)
+	plain := CellsToStr(cs)
 
 	// wrap
-	plainWrapped := wordwrap.WrapString(plain, wl)
+	plainWrapped := wordwrap.WrapString(plain, uint(wl))
 
 	// find differences and insert
 	finalCell := tmpCell // finalcell will get the inserts and is what is returned
@@ -211,7 +206,7 @@ func (mtb MarkdownTxBuilder) BuildWrap(s string, fg, bg Attribute, wl uint) []Ce
 
 	for trigger != "stop" {
 		plainRune = plainRuneNew
-		for i, _ := range plainRune {
+		for i := range plainRune {
 			if plainRune[i] == plainWrappedRune[i] {
 				trigger = "stop"
 			} else if plainRune[i] != plainWrappedRune[i] && plainWrappedRune[i] == 10 {