diff --git a/src/Paragraph.cpp b/src/Paragraph.cpp
index 8716982b02..3054680573 100644
--- a/src/Paragraph.cpp
+++ b/src/Paragraph.cpp
@@ -1395,7 +1395,7 @@ void Paragraph::Private::validate(LaTeXFeatures & features) const
 
 	if (features.runparams().flavor == OutputParams::HTML
 	    && layout_->htmltitle()) {
-		features.setHTMLTitle(owner_->asString(AS_STR_INSETS));
+		features.setHTMLTitle(owner_->asString(AS_STR_INSETS | AS_STR_SKIPDELETE));
 	}
 
 	// check the params.
diff --git a/status.20x b/status.20x
index 110c722415..51d64120e1 100644
--- a/status.20x
+++ b/status.20x
@@ -102,6 +102,8 @@ What's new
 - Don't output extra body tags with included files when generating
   XHTML.
 
+- Do not include deleted text in the title of the XHTML output.
+
 
 * USER INTERFACE