diff --git a/src/Dompdf.php b/src/Dompdf.php
index 40329063f..bfb1c2b1b 100644
--- a/src/Dompdf.php
+++ b/src/Dompdf.php
@@ -490,6 +490,16 @@ public function loadHtml($str, $encoding = 'UTF-8')
             $doc->loadHTML($str);
             $doc->encoding = $encoding;
 
+            // Remove #text children nodes in nodes that shouldn't have
+            $tag_names = array("html", "table", "tbody", "thead", "tfoot", "tr");
+            foreach ($tag_names as $tag_name) {
+                $nodes = $doc->getElementsByTagName($tag_name);
+
+                foreach ($nodes as $node) {
+                    self::removeTextNodes($node);
+                }
+            }
+
             // If some text is before the doctype, we are in quirksmode
             if (preg_match("/^(.+)<!doctype/i", ltrim($str), $matches)) {
                 $quirksmode = true;