diff --git a/src/platform/web/parsehtml.js b/src/platform/web/parsehtml.js
index 21c8f39a..e80ec995 100644
--- a/src/platform/web/parsehtml.js
+++ b/src/platform/web/parsehtml.js
@@ -64,6 +64,6 @@ export function parseHTML(html) {
// If DOMPurify uses DOMParser, can't we just get the built tree from it
// instead of re-parsing?
const sanitized = DOMPurify.sanitize(html, sanitizeConfig);
- const bodyNode = new DOMParser().parseFromString(sanitized, "text/html").body;
+ const bodyNode = new DOMParser().parseFromString(`${sanitized}`, "text/html").body;
return new HTMLParseResult(bodyNode);
}