diff --git a/src/core/parseHTML.js b/src/core/parseHTML.js
index 6de02e8b6f..43befa709f 100644
--- a/src/core/parseHTML.js
+++ b/src/core/parseHTML.js
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import { jQuery } from "../core.js";
-import { document } from "../var/document.js";
 import { rsingleTag } from "./var/rsingleTag.js";
 import { buildFragment } from "../manipulation/buildFragment.js";
 import { isObviousHtml } from "./isObviousHtml.js";
@@ -17,20 +16,13 @@ jQuery.parseHTML = function( data, context, keepScripts ) {
 		context = false;
 	}
 
-	var base, parsed, scripts;
+	var parsed, scripts;
 
 	if ( !context ) {
 
 		// Stop scripts or inline event handlers from being executed immediately
-		// by using document.implementation
-		context = document.implementation.createHTMLDocument( "" );
-
-		// Set the base href for the created document
-		// so any parsed elements with URLs
-		// are based on the document's URL (gh-2965)
-		base = context.createElement( "base" );
-		base.href = document.location.href;
-		context.head.appendChild( base );
+		// by using DOMParser
+		context = ( new window.DOMParser() ).parseFromString( data, "text/html" );
 	}
 
 	parsed = rsingleTag.exec( data );
diff --git a/test/unit/manipulation.js b/test/unit/manipulation.js
index 8300b4b9c2..a769ac57c3 100644
--- a/test/unit/manipulation.js
+++ b/test/unit/manipulation.js
@@ -3073,6 +3073,47 @@ QUnit.test( "Sanitized HTML doesn't get unsanitized", function( assert ) {
 	}
 } );
 
+QUnit.test( "Parsing consistent with `document.write`", function( assert ) {
+	var domStructure;
+
+	assert.expect( 1 );
+
+	function repeatString( str, count ) {
+		var ret = "";
+		while ( count ) {
+			ret += str;
+			count--;
+		}
+		return ret;
+	}
+
+	function serializeNodeNames( nodes, offset ) {
+		var i, node,
+			result = "";
+		offset = offset || 0;
+
+		for ( i = 0; i < nodes.length; i++ ) {
+			node = nodes[ i ];
+			result += repeatString( "  ", offset ) + node.nodeName.toLowerCase() + "\n";
+			result += serializeNodeNames( node.childNodes, offset + 1 );
+		}
+
+		return result;
+	}
+
+	domStructure = jQuery.parseHTML(
+		"<svg><p><style><img src=\"</style><img//\">" );
+
+	assert.strictEqual( serializeNodeNames( domStructure ),
+		"svg\n" +
+		"p\n" +
+		"  style\n" +
+		"    #text\n" +
+		"  img\n" +
+		"",
+		"Parsing consistent with `document.write`" );
+} );
+
 QUnit.test( "Works with invalid attempts to close the table wrapper", function( assert ) {
 	assert.expect( 3 );