diff --git a/src/components/rich_content/rich_content.jsx b/src/components/rich_content/rich_content.jsx
index ca075270..8a5758af 100644
--- a/src/components/rich_content/rich_content.jsx
+++ b/src/components/rich_content/rich_content.jsx
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ export default {
               break
             }
           case 'span':
-            if (this.handleLinks && attrs['class'] && attrs['class'].includes('h-card')) {
+            if (this.handleLinks && attrs.class && attrs.class.includes('h-card')) {
               return ['', children.map(processItem), '']
             }
         }
@@ -213,13 +213,13 @@ export default {
         const [opener, children] = item
         const Tag = opener === '' ? '' : getTagName(opener)
         switch (Tag) {
-          case 'a': // replace mentions with MentionLink
+          case 'a': { // replace mentions with MentionLink
             if (!this.handleLinks) break
             const attrs = getAttrs(opener)
             // should only be this
             if (
-              (attrs['class'] && attrs['class'].includes('hashtag')) || // Pleroma style
-                (attrs['rel'] === 'tag') // Mastodon style
+              (attrs.class && attrs.class.includes('hashtag')) || // Pleroma style
+                (attrs.rel === 'tag') // Mastodon style
             ) {
               return renderHashtag(attrs, children, encounteredTextReverse)
             } else {
@@ -230,6 +230,7 @@ export default {
                 { newChildren }
               </a>
             }
+          }
           case '':
             return [...children].reverse().map(processItemReverse).reverse()
         }
diff --git a/src/services/html_converter/utility.service.js b/src/services/html_converter/utility.service.js
index 583ccca5..c8670cb4 100644
--- a/src/services/html_converter/utility.service.js
+++ b/src/services/html_converter/utility.service.js
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ export const getTagName = (tag) => {
  * @return {Object} - map of attributes key = attribute name, value = attribute value
  *   attributes without values represented as boolean true
  */
-export const getAttrs = tag => {
+export const getAttrs = (tag, filter) => {
   const innertag = tag
     .substring(1, tag.length - 1)
     .replace(new RegExp('^' + getTagName(tag)), '')
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ export const getAttrs = tag => {
       if (!v) return [k, true]
       return [k, v.substring(1, v.length - 1)]
     })
-  return Object.fromEntries(attrs)
+  const defaultFilter = ([k, v]) => (k.toLowerCase() !== 'class' && k.toLowerCase() !== 'style')
+  return Object.fromEntries(attrs.filter(filter || defaultFilter))
 }
 
 /**