diff --git a/draftlogs/6758_fix.md b/draftlogs/6758_fix.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9297a4973da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/draftlogs/6758_fix.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+ - Fix handling multi-line text in title `automargin` [[#6758](https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/pull/6758)]
diff --git a/src/plot_api/subroutines.js b/src/plot_api/subroutines.js
index 1386e1e8ab1..487decf74f9 100644
--- a/src/plot_api/subroutines.js
+++ b/src/plot_api/subroutines.js
@@ -430,6 +430,19 @@ exports.drawMainTitle = function(gd) {
                 'text-anchor': textAnchor,
                 dy: getMainTitleDyAdj(title.yanchor)
             }).call(svgTextUtils.positionText, x, y);
+
+            var extraLines = (title.text.match(svgTextUtils.BR_TAG_ALL) || []).length;
+            if(extraLines) {
+                var delta = alignmentConstants.LINE_SPACING * extraLines + alignmentConstants.MID_SHIFT;
+                if(title.y === 0) {
+                    delta = -delta;
+                }
+
+                titleObj.selectAll('.line').each(function() {
+                    var newDy = +(this.getAttribute('dy')).slice(0, -2) - delta + 'em';
+                    this.setAttribute('dy', newDy);
+                });
+            }
         }
     }
 };
diff --git a/test/image/baselines/automargin-title-paper-multiline.png b/test/image/baselines/automargin-title-paper-multiline.png
index a83a9e493b5..94b0a4a6971 100644
Binary files a/test/image/baselines/automargin-title-paper-multiline.png and b/test/image/baselines/automargin-title-paper-multiline.png differ
diff --git a/test/image/baselines/zzz-automargin-title-paper-multiline-bottom.png b/test/image/baselines/zzz-automargin-title-paper-multiline-bottom.png
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3f0fea847aa
Binary files /dev/null and b/test/image/baselines/zzz-automargin-title-paper-multiline-bottom.png differ
diff --git a/test/image/mocks/zzz-automargin-title-paper-multiline-bottom.json b/test/image/mocks/zzz-automargin-title-paper-multiline-bottom.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..30b12cb505f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/image/mocks/zzz-automargin-title-paper-multiline-bottom.json
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+{
+    "data": [
+        {
+            "showlegend": false,
+            "type": "scatter",
+            "x": [
+            1,
+            2,
+            3
+            ],
+            "y": [
+            4,
+            5,
+            6
+            ]
+        }],
+    "layout": {
+        "height": 300,
+        "width": 400,
+        "margin": {"t":0, "b": 0, "l": 0, "r": 0},
+        "title": {
+            "automargin": true, 
+            "text": "Paper<br>Multi-line",
+            "pad": {"t": 15, "b": 10},
+            "yref": "paper",
+            "y": 0
+        }
+  }
+}