diff --git a/src/document/html/internal.h b/src/document/html/internal.h
index c1924755..ff2224e2 100644
--- a/src/document/html/internal.h
+++ b/src/document/html/internal.h
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ struct html_context {
 	 * from <style>-tags and external stylesheets if enabled is merged
 	 * added to it. */
 	struct css_stylesheet css_styles;
-	struct html_element html;
 #endif
 
 	/* These are global per-document base values, alterable by the <base>
@@ -80,7 +79,6 @@ struct html_context {
 	unsigned int has_link_lines:1;
 	unsigned int was_body:1; /* For META refresh inside <body>. */
 	unsigned int was_body_background:1; /* For <HTML> with style. */
-	unsigned int was_html:1; /* was <HTML> */
 
 	/* For html/parser.c, html/renderer.c */
 	int margin;
diff --git a/src/document/html/parser/parse.c b/src/document/html/parser/parse.c
index 026a1ed0..17dd3b90 100644
--- a/src/document/html/parser/parse.c
+++ b/src/document/html/parser/parse.c
@@ -647,7 +647,6 @@ parse_html(unsigned char *html, unsigned char *eof,
 	html_context->was_br = 0;
 	html_context->was_li = 0;
 	html_context->was_body = 0;
-	html_context->was_html = 0;
 /*	html_context->was_body_background = 0; */
 	html_context->part = part;
 	html_context->eoff = eof;
@@ -951,21 +950,6 @@ start_element(struct element_info *ei,
 	/* Apply CSS styles. */
 #ifdef CONFIG_CSS
 	if (html_top->options && html_context->options->css_enable) {
-		if (ei->open == html_html) {
-			html_context->html = *html_top;
-			html_context->was_html = 1;
-		}
-		if (ei->open == html_body && html_context->was_html == 1) {
-			selector = get_css_selector_for_element(html_context,
-								&html_context->html,
-								&html_context->css_styles,
-								&html_context->stack);
-			if (selector) {
-				apply_css_selector_style(html_context, html_top, selector);
-				done_css_selector(selector);
-			}
-		}
-
 		/* XXX: We should apply CSS otherwise as well, but that'll need
 		 * some deeper changes in order to have options filled etc.
 		 * Probably just applying CSS from more places, since we
