diff --git a/Tests/LibWeb/Text/expected/DOM/getElementById-empty-string.txt b/Tests/LibWeb/Text/expected/DOM/getElementById-empty-string.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..01be754e9a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tests/LibWeb/Text/expected/DOM/getElementById-empty-string.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+ document.getElementById(""): null
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Tests/LibWeb/Text/input/DOM/getElementById-empty-string.html b/Tests/LibWeb/Text/input/DOM/getElementById-empty-string.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e22e65bdf7d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tests/LibWeb/Text/input/DOM/getElementById-empty-string.html
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+
+
+
+
diff --git a/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/DOM/Element.cpp b/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/DOM/Element.cpp
index d055fbd0e56..a27910e523d 100644
--- a/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/DOM/Element.cpp
+++ b/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/DOM/Element.cpp
@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ void Element::attribute_changed(FlyString const& name, Optional const&,
auto value_or_empty = value.value_or(String {});
if (name == HTML::AttributeNames::id) {
- if (!value.has_value())
+ if (value_or_empty.is_empty())
m_id = {};
else
m_id = value_or_empty;