diff --git a/lisp/ox-html.el b/lisp/ox-html.el
index 75c6993bd..d50ff5e01 100644
--- a/lisp/ox-html.el
+++ b/lisp/ox-html.el
@@ -1701,7 +1701,6 @@ INFO is a plist used as a communication channel."
'mime-charset))
"iso-8859-1")))
(concat
- (format "
%s\n" title)
(when (plist-get info :time-stamp-file)
(format-time-string
(concat "