diff --git a/gramps/gen/plug/docbackend/docbackend.py b/gramps/gen/plug/docbackend/docbackend.py
index c601fe427..481c1ee78 100644
--- a/gramps/gen/plug/docbackend/docbackend.py
+++ b/gramps/gen/plug/docbackend/docbackend.py
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ class DocBackend(object):
     
     SUPPORTED_MARKUP = []
 
-    ESCAPE_FUNC = lambda x: noescape
+    ESCAPE_FUNC = lambda: noescape
     #Map between styletypes and internally used values. This map is needed
     # to make TextDoc officially independant of gen.lib.styledtexttag
     STYLETYPE_MAP = {
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ class DocBackend(object):
             return None
         return ('', '')
     
-    def add_markup_from_styled(self, text, s_tags, split=''):
+    def add_markup_from_styled(self, text, s_tags, split='', escape=True):
         """
         Input is plain text, output is text with markup added according to the
         s_tags which are assumed to be styledtexttags.
@@ -287,6 +287,9 @@ class DocBackend(object):
                 is <b>text</b><i><b> here</b> not</i>
                overwrite this method if this complexity is not needed. 
         """
+        if not escape:
+            escape_func = self.ESCAPE_FUNC
+            self.ESCAPE_FUNC = lambda: (lambda text: text)
         #unicode text must be sliced correctly
         text = cuni(text)
         FIRST = 0
@@ -378,7 +381,8 @@ class DocBackend(object):
                 otext += opentag[1]
         else:
             otext += self.ESCAPE_FUNC()(text[start:end])
-
+        if not escape:
+            self.ESCAPE_FUNC = escape_func
         return otext
 
     def format_link(self, value):
diff --git a/gramps/plugins/webreport/narrativeweb.py b/gramps/plugins/webreport/narrativeweb.py
index 1b6b094e5..6273f10ee 100644
--- a/gramps/plugins/webreport/narrativeweb.py
+++ b/gramps/plugins/webreport/narrativeweb.py
@@ -918,12 +918,17 @@ class BasePage(object):
             return ''
 
         s_tags = styledtext.get_tags()
-        markuptext = self._backend.add_markup_from_styled(text, s_tags,
-                                                         split='\n')
         htmllist = Html("div", class_="grampsstylednote")
         if contains_html:
-            htmllist += text
+            markuptext = self._backend.add_markup_from_styled(text, 
+                                                              s_tags, 
+                                                              split='\n',
+                                                              escape=False)
+            htmllist += markuptext
         else:
+            markuptext = self._backend.add_markup_from_styled(text, 
+                                                              s_tags, 
+                                                              split='\n')
             linelist = []
             linenb = 1
             for line in markuptext.split('\n'):