diff --git a/src/browser/dump.zig b/src/browser/dump.zig
index 90463c153..394e12c92 100644
--- a/src/browser/dump.zig
+++ b/src/browser/dump.zig
@@ -320,15 +320,22 @@ fn shouldStripElement(el: *Node.Element, opts: Opts, frame: *Frame) bool {
 }
 
 fn shouldEscapeText(node_: ?*Node) bool {
+    // Raw text elements serialize their text content literally rather than
+    // HTML-escaping it
     const node = node_ orelse return true;
-    if (node.is(Node.Element.Html.Script) != null) {
-        return false;
-    }
-    // When scripting is enabled, <noscript> is a raw text element per the HTML spec
-    // (https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/parsing.html#serialising-html-fragments).
-    // Its text content must not be HTML-escaped during serialization.
-    if (node.is(Node.Element.Html.Generic)) |generic| {
-        if (generic._tag == .noscript) return false;
+    const element = node.is(Node.Element) orelse return true;
+    const html_element = node.is(Node.Element.Html) orelse return true;
+
+    switch (html_element._type) {
+        .style, .script, .iframe => return false,
+        else => {
+            const tag = element.getTagNameLower();
+            inline for (.{ "xmp", "noembed", "noframes", "plaintext", "noscript" }) |raw_text_tag| {
+                if (std.mem.eql(u8, tag, raw_text_tag)) {
+                    return false;
+                }
+            }
+        },
     }
     return true;
 }
diff --git a/src/browser/parser/Parser.zig b/src/browser/parser/Parser.zig
index 35611bf98..c3fc4b6c0 100644
--- a/src/browser/parser/Parser.zig
+++ b/src/browser/parser/Parser.zig
@@ -259,9 +259,16 @@ pub fn parseXML(self: *Parser, xml: []const u8) void {
 }
 
 pub fn parseFragment(self: *Parser, html: []const u8) void {
+    const context_name: []const u8 = if (self.container.node.is(Element)) |el|
+        el.getLocalName()
+    else
+        "";
+
     h5e.html5ever_parse_fragment(
         html.ptr,
         html.len,
+        context_name.ptr,
+        context_name.len,
         &self.container,
         self,
         createElementCallback,
diff --git a/src/browser/parser/html5ever.zig b/src/browser/parser/html5ever.zig
index 135e6c962..753b057cc 100644
--- a/src/browser/parser/html5ever.zig
+++ b/src/browser/parser/html5ever.zig
@@ -70,6 +70,8 @@ pub extern "c" fn html5ever_parse_document_with_encoding(
 pub extern "c" fn html5ever_parse_fragment(
     html: [*c]const u8,
     len: usize,
+    context_name: [*c]const u8,
+    context_name_len: usize,
     doc: *anyopaque,
     ctx: *anyopaque,
     createElementCallback: *const fn (ctx: *anyopaque, data: *anyopaque, QualName, AttributeIterator) callconv(.c) ?*anyopaque,
diff --git a/src/browser/tests/element/inner.html b/src/browser/tests/element/inner.html
index 5f0dc1601..26d9e4ab6 100644
--- a/src/browser/tests/element/inner.html
+++ b/src/browser/tests/element/inner.html
@@ -201,3 +201,42 @@
   d1.innerHTML = '<span style="visibility:hidden">X</span>Y';
   testing.expectEqual("XY", d1.innerText);
 </script>
+
+<script id=rawTextContext>
+  // Setting innerHTML on a raw-text element (script/style/textarea/title) must
+  // parse the content in the matching raw-text tokenizer state. In particular a
+  // '<' followed by a letter is plain text, NOT the start of a tag — otherwise
+  // the body is truncated at the first '<' (e.g. `for(;l<localStorage.length;)`
+  // would be swallowed, leaving a half-statement that fails to compile).
+  const script = document.createElement('script');
+  const body = 'window.__x=0; for(let l=0;l<localStorage.length+3;){window.__x=l;l++;}';
+  script.innerHTML = body;
+  testing.expectEqual(body, script.innerHTML);
+  testing.expectEqual(1, script.childNodes.length);
+  testing.expectEqual(body, script.textContent);
+
+  const style = document.createElement('style');
+  style.innerHTML = 'a<b{color:red}';
+  testing.expectEqual('a<b{color:red}', style.innerHTML);
+  testing.expectEqual(1, style.childNodes.length);
+
+  // textarea / title are RCDATA: '<' + letter stays text (not a tag) and
+  // character references are decoded on parse. On serialization the content is
+  // re-escaped (RCDATA elements are NOT raw-text-serialized), so the round-trip
+  // shows '<' as &lt; and the decoded '&' re-escaped as &amp;.
+  const textarea = document.createElement('textarea');
+  textarea.innerHTML = 'x < y &amp; z';
+  testing.expectEqual('x < y & z', textarea.value);
+  testing.expectEqual('x &lt; y &amp; z', textarea.innerHTML);
+
+  const title = document.createElement('title');
+  title.innerHTML = '1 < 2 < three';
+  testing.expectEqual(1, title.childNodes.length);
+  testing.expectEqual('1 < 2 < three', title.textContent);
+  testing.expectEqual('1 &lt; 2 &lt; three', title.innerHTML);
+
+  // A normal element stays in the data state: '<b>' is a real child element.
+  d1.innerHTML = 'a<b>bold</b>';
+  testing.expectEqual('a<b>bold</b>', d1.innerHTML);
+  testing.expectEqual('B', d1.lastChild.tagName);
+</script>
diff --git a/src/html5ever/lib.rs b/src/html5ever/lib.rs
index 709d508c0..aeb614ae6 100644
--- a/src/html5ever/lib.rs
+++ b/src/html5ever/lib.rs
@@ -461,6 +461,8 @@ pub extern "C" fn encoding_max_encode_buffer_length(
 pub extern "C" fn html5ever_parse_fragment(
     html: *mut c_uchar,
     len: usize,
+    context_name: *const c_uchar,
+    context_name_len: usize,
     document: Ref,
     ctx: Ref,
     create_element_callback: CreateElementCallback,
@@ -510,10 +512,24 @@ pub extern "C" fn html5ever_parse_fragment(
     };
 
     let bytes = unsafe { std::slice::from_raw_parts(html, len) };
+
+    // The initial state of the parser is dertmined by the context element.
+    // E.g., parsing the content of a script tag behaves differently than
+    // parsing the content of the body.
+    let context_local = if context_name.is_null() || context_name_len == 0 {
+        LocalName::from("body")
+    } else {
+        let name_bytes = unsafe { std::slice::from_raw_parts(context_name, context_name_len) };
+        match std::str::from_utf8(name_bytes) {
+            Ok(name) => LocalName::from(name),
+            Err(_) => LocalName::from("body"),
+        }
+    };
+
     parse_fragment(
         sink,
         Default::default(),
-        QualName::new(None, ns!(html), LocalName::from("body")),
+        QualName::new(None, ns!(html), context_local),
         vec![], // attributes
         false,  // context_element_allows_scripting
     )