diff --git a/lisp/org-exp-blocks.el b/lisp/org-exp-blocks.el
index a1514f0a8..96582c132 100644
--- a/lisp/org-exp-blocks.el
+++ b/lisp/org-exp-blocks.el
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ other backends, it converts the comment into an EXAMPLE segment."
(if owner (format " id=\"org-comment-%s\" " owner))
">\n"
(if owner (concat "" owner " ") "")
- (if (and title (> (length title) 0)) (concat " -- " title "\n") "\n")
+ (if (and title (> (length title) 0)) (concat " -- " title "
\n") "
\n")
"
\n" "#+END_HTML\n" body