diff --git a/Libraries/LibWeb/Parser/HTMLDocumentParser.cpp b/Libraries/LibWeb/Parser/HTMLDocumentParser.cpp
index 629a5c6f42..26da7c289b 100644
--- a/Libraries/LibWeb/Parser/HTMLDocumentParser.cpp
+++ b/Libraries/LibWeb/Parser/HTMLDocumentParser.cpp
@@ -1283,12 +1283,13 @@ void HTMLDocumentParser::handle_in_body(HTMLToken& token)
     if (token.is_start_tag() && token.tag_name() == "textarea") {
         insert_html_element(token);
 
+        m_tokenizer.switch_to({}, HTMLTokenizer::State::RCDATA);
+
         // If the next token is a U+000A LINE FEED (LF) character token,
         // then ignore that token and move on to the next one.
         // (Newlines at the start of pre blocks are ignored as an authoring convenience.)
         auto next_token = m_tokenizer.next_token();
 
-        m_tokenizer.switch_to({}, HTMLTokenizer::State::RCDATA);
         m_original_insertion_mode = m_insertion_mode;
         m_frameset_ok = false;
         m_insertion_mode = InsertionMode::Text;