diff --git a/src/libs/SelectionScraper/index.js b/src/libs/SelectionScraper/index.js
index b3562b7ee84d..363367072631 100644
--- a/src/libs/SelectionScraper/index.js
+++ b/src/libs/SelectionScraper/index.js
@@ -88,10 +88,11 @@ const replaceNodes = (dom) => {
     let domName = dom.name;
     let domChildren;
     const domAttribs = {};
+    let data;
 
     // Encoding HTML chars '< >' in the text, because any HTML will be removed in stripHTML method.
     if (dom.type === 'text') {
-        dom.setAttribute('data', Str.htmlEncode(dom.data));
+        data = Str.htmlEncode(dom.data);
     }
 
     // We are skipping elements which has html and body in data-testid, since ExpensiMark can't parse it. Also this data
@@ -118,6 +119,7 @@ const replaceNodes = (dom) => {
 
     return {
         ...dom,
+        data,
         name: domName,
         attribs: domAttribs,
         children: domChildren,