diff --git a/unpacked/jax/output/HTML-CSS/jax.js b/unpacked/jax/output/HTML-CSS/jax.js
index ccb64156c..34e059345 100644
--- a/unpacked/jax/output/HTML-CSS/jax.js
+++ b/unpacked/jax/output/HTML-CSS/jax.js
@@ -1202,6 +1202,7 @@
     },
     alignBox: function (span,align,y) {
       this.placeBox(span,0,y); // set y position (and left aligned)
+      if (this.msiePlaceBoxBug) {span.removeChild(span.lastChild.previousSibling)}
       var bbox = span.bbox; if (bbox.isMultiline) return;
       var isRelative = bbox.width != null && !bbox.isFixed;
       var r = 0, c = -bbox.w/2, l = "50%";