diff --git a/dev/Common/Html.js b/dev/Common/Html.js
index 0b55792e0..23df1e025 100644
--- a/dev/Common/Html.js
+++ b/dev/Common/Html.js
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ const
'span','strong','sub','sup','time','u','var',
// Deprecated by HTML Standard
'acronym','big','center','dir','font','marquee',
- 'nobr','noembed','noframes','plaintext','rb','rtc','strike','tt',
+ 'nobr','plaintext','rb','rtc','strike','tt',
// Media Elements
'img',//'picture','source',
// Table Elements
@@ -169,8 +169,9 @@ const
// strip comments
.replace(/\/\*[\s\S]*?\*\//gi, '')
// strip MS Word comments
- .replace(//gi, '');
- // strip HTML
+ .replace(//gi, '')
+ // strip HTML, as < is no CSS combinator anyway
+ .replace(/<[\s\S]*/gi, '');
// .replace(/<\/?[a-z][\s\S]*?>/gi, '');
// unified regex to match css & media queries together