diff --git a/runtime/autoload/htmlcomplete.vim b/runtime/autoload/htmlcomplete.vim
index 79eb9a631d..2170e21a90 100644
--- a/runtime/autoload/htmlcomplete.vim
+++ b/runtime/autoload/htmlcomplete.vim
@@ -127,8 +127,6 @@ function! htmlcomplete#CompleteTags(findstart, base)
let res2 = []
" a:base is very short - we need context
let context = b:compl_context
- let g:ab = a:base
- let g:co = context
" Check if we should do CSS completion inside of