Use `createElement` and `innerHTML` instead of `DOMParser`

@GuillaumeGomez was concerned about browser compatibility.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/src/librustdoc/html/static/main.js b/src/librustdoc/html/static/main.js
index 712ea044e48..0884351a9fd 100644
--- a/src/librustdoc/html/static/main.js
+++ b/src/librustdoc/html/static/main.js
@@ -2040,11 +2040,9 @@ function defocusSearchBar() {
      * @return {[string]}      [The resulting plaintext]
      */
     function convertHTMLToPlaintext(html) {
-        var dom = new DOMParser().parseFromString(
-            html.replace('<code>', '`').replace('</code>', '`'),
-            'text/html',
-        );
-        return dom.body.innerText;
+        var x = document.createElement("div");
+        x.innerHTML = html.replace('<code>', '`').replace('</code>', '`');
+        return x.innerText;
     }