diff --git a/ts/html-filter/index.test.ts b/ts/html-filter/index.test.ts
index 0da156901..98a5403d8 100644
--- a/ts/html-filter/index.test.ts
+++ b/ts/html-filter/index.test.ts
@@ -35,9 +35,13 @@ describe("filterHTML", () => {
         expect(
             filterHTML('<span style="background-color: blue;">x</span>', false, false),
         ).toBe("x");
-        // or if it's an internal paste
+        // no filtering on internal paste
         expect(
-            filterHTML('<span style="background-color: blue;"></span>', true, true),
-        ).toBe('<span style=""></span>');
+            filterHTML(
+                '<span style="background-color: transparent;"></span>',
+                true,
+                true,
+            ),
+        ).toBe('<span style="background-color: transparent;"></span>');
     });
 });
diff --git a/ts/html-filter/styling.ts b/ts/html-filter/styling.ts
index 0a24469d3..db189859e 100644
--- a/ts/html-filter/styling.ts
+++ b/ts/html-filter/styling.ts
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ export const filterStylingLightMode = filterStyling(discard, {
     ...nightModeExceptions,
 });
 export const filterStylingInternal = filterStyling(keep, {
-    "background-color": discard,
     "font-size": discard,
     "font-family": discard,
     width: discard,