diff --git a/src/renderers/dom/client/__tests__/validateDOMNesting-test.js b/src/renderers/dom/client/__tests__/validateDOMNesting-test.js
index 7f671c61f8..2c18a89d61 100644
--- a/src/renderers/dom/client/__tests__/validateDOMNesting-test.js
+++ b/src/renderers/dom/client/__tests__/validateDOMNesting-test.js
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ describe('ReactContextValidator', function() {
     expect(isTagStackValid(['div', 'a', 'object', 'a'])).toBe(true);
     expect(isTagStackValid(['div', 'p', 'button', 'p'])).toBe(true);
     expect(isTagStackValid(['p', 'svg', 'foreignObject', 'p'])).toBe(true);
+    expect(isTagStackValid(['html', 'body', 'div'])).toBe(true);
 
     // Invalid, but not changed by browser parsing so we allow them
     expect(isTagStackValid(['div', 'ul', 'ul', 'li'])).toBe(true);
@@ -81,5 +82,6 @@ describe('ReactContextValidator', function() {
     expect(isTagStackValid(['p', 'p'])).toBe(false);
     expect(isTagStackValid(['table', 'tr'])).toBe(false);
     expect(isTagStackValid(['div', 'ul', 'li', 'div', 'li'])).toBe(false);
+    expect(isTagStackValid(['div', 'html'])).toBe(false);
   });
 });
diff --git a/src/renderers/dom/client/validateDOMNesting.js b/src/renderers/dom/client/validateDOMNesting.js
index d853990b01..69e69845a1 100644
--- a/src/renderers/dom/client/validateDOMNesting.js
+++ b/src/renderers/dom/client/validateDOMNesting.js
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ if (__DEV__) {
       // https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics.html#the-html-element
       case 'html':
         return tag === 'head' || tag === 'body';
+      case '#document':
+        return tag === 'html';
     }
 
     // Probably in the "in body" parsing mode, so we outlaw only tag combos
@@ -212,6 +214,7 @@ if (__DEV__) {
       case 'colgroup':
       case 'frame':
       case 'head':
+      case 'html':
       case 'tbody':
       case 'td':
       case 'tfoot':