diff --git a/parser/htmlparser/src/nsHTMLTokens.cpp b/parser/htmlparser/src/nsHTMLTokens.cpp
index ee553a0f80bc..82897910b57d 100644
--- a/parser/htmlparser/src/nsHTMLTokens.cpp
+++ b/parser/htmlparser/src/nsHTMLTokens.cpp
@@ -775,6 +775,7 @@ CTextToken::ConsumeParsedCharacterData(PRBool aDiscardFirstNewline,
 
   nsScannerIterator currPos, endPos, altEndPos;
   PRUint32 truncPos = 0;
+  PRInt32 truncNewlineCount = 0;
   aScanner.CurrentPosition(currPos);
   aScanner.EndReading(endPos);
 
@@ -839,6 +840,7 @@ CTextToken::ConsumeParsedCharacterData(PRBool aDiscardFirstNewline,
           // We ran out of room looking for a </title>. Go back to the first
           // place that looked like a tag and use that as our stopping point.
           theContent.writable().Truncate(truncPos);
+          mNewlineCount = truncNewlineCount;
           aScanner.SetPosition(altEndPos, PR_FALSE, PR_TRUE);
         }
         // else we take everything we consumed.
@@ -857,6 +859,7 @@ CTextToken::ConsumeParsedCharacterData(PRBool aDiscardFirstNewline,
       // Keep this position in case we need it for later.
       altEndPos = currPos;
       truncPos = theContent.str().Length();
+      truncNewlineCount = mNewlineCount;
     }
 
     if (Distance(currPos, endPos) >= termStrLen) {