my $value = !ref($class_or_value) && (($class_or_value // '') eq 'SL::HTML::Util') ? $_[1] : $class_or_value;
+ return '' unless defined $value;
+
+ # Remove HTML comments.
+ $value =~ s{ <!-- .*? --> }{}gx;
+
if (!%stripper) {
%stripper = ( parser => HTML::Parser->new );