diff --git a/phpcs.xml.dist b/phpcs.xml.dist
index 3defbc290a6b2..b177cf1f7a990 100644
--- a/phpcs.xml.dist
+++ b/phpcs.xml.dist
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@
 	#############################################################################
 	SELECTIVE EXCLUSIONS
 	Exclude specific files for specific sniffs and/or exclude sub-groups in sniffs.
-	
+
 	These exclusions are listed ordered by alphabetic sniff name.
 	#############################################################################
 	-->
@@ -250,6 +250,15 @@
 		<exclude-pattern>/wp-tests-config-sample\.php</exclude-pattern>
 	</rule>
 
+	<!-- Exclude forbidding goto in the HTML Processor, which mimics algorithms that are written
+	     this way in the HTML specification, and these particular algorithms are complex and
+	     highly imperative. Avoiding the goto introduces a number of risks that could make it
+	     more difficult to maintain the relationship to the standard, lead to subtle differences
+	     in the parsing, and distance the code from its standard. -->
+	<rule ref="Generic.PHP.DiscourageGoto.Found">
+		<exclude-pattern>/wp-includes/html-api/class-wp-html-processor\.php</exclude-pattern>
+	</rule>
+
 	<!-- Exclude sample config from modernization to prevent breaking CI workflows based on WP-CLI scaffold.
 		 See: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/48082#comment:16 -->
 	<rule ref="Modernize.FunctionCalls.Dirname.FileConstant">
diff --git a/tests/phpunit/tests/html-api/wpHtmlProcessorBreadcrumbs.php b/tests/phpunit/tests/html-api/wpHtmlProcessorBreadcrumbs.php
index 9a9936a599118..b584740eefeab 100644
--- a/tests/phpunit/tests/html-api/wpHtmlProcessorBreadcrumbs.php
+++ b/tests/phpunit/tests/html-api/wpHtmlProcessorBreadcrumbs.php
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ public function data_single_tag_of_supported_elements() {
 			'METER',
 			'MULTICOL', // Deprecated
 			'NAV',
-			'NEXTID',// Deprecated
+			'NEXTID', // Deprecated
 			'OUTPUT',
 			'P',
 			'PICTURE',