diff --git a/custom-elements/reactions/HTMLElement.html b/custom-elements/reactions/HTMLElement.html
index 5fe422cdfc1df5..bd252282161b59 100644
--- a/custom-elements/reactions/HTMLElement.html
+++ b/custom-elements/reactions/HTMLElement.html
@@ -28,12 +28,9 @@
customElement.parentNode.innerText = '';
}, 'innerText on HTMLElement');
-if ('outerText' in HTMLElement.prototype) {
- // Not yet to be in the standard but all but Gecko supports this property: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/668
- testNodeDisconnector(function (customElement) {
- customElement.outerText = '';
- }, 'outerText on HTMLElement');
-}
+testNodeDisconnector(function (customElement) {
+ customElement.outerText = '';
+}, 'outerText on HTMLElement');