diff --git a/src/manipulation.js b/src/manipulation.js
index a10feae93..a58e52b6a 100644
--- a/src/manipulation.js
+++ b/src/manipulation.js
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ var rinlinejQuery = / jQuery\d+="(?:\d+|null)"/g,
 	rtagName = /<([\w:]+)/,
 	rtbody = /<tbody/i,
 	rhtml = /<|&#?\w+;/,
-	rnocache = /<script|<object|<embed|<option/i,
+	rnocache = /<script|<object|<embed|<option|<style/i,
 	rchecked = /checked\s*(?:[^=]|=\s*.checked.)/i,  // checked="checked" or checked (html5)
 	fcloseTag = function( all, front, tag ) {
 		return rselfClosing.test( tag ) ?
diff --git a/test/unit/manipulation.js b/test/unit/manipulation.js
index 81ab3e4ef..082c4e9d6 100644
--- a/test/unit/manipulation.js
+++ b/test/unit/manipulation.js
@@ -866,7 +866,7 @@ test("clone() on XML nodes", function() {
 }
 
 var testHtml = function(valueObj) {
-	expect(29);
+	expect(31);
 
 	jQuery.scriptorder = 0;
 
@@ -886,6 +886,11 @@ var testHtml = function(valueObj) {
 	equals( jQuery("<div/>").html(valueObj("&#160;"))[0].innerHTML, "&nbsp;", "Make sure entities are passed through correctly." );
 	equals( jQuery("<div/>").html(valueObj("&amp;"))[0].innerHTML, "&amp;", "Make sure entities are passed through correctly." );
 
+	jQuery("#main").html(valueObj("<style>.foobar{color:green;}</style>"));
+
+	equals( jQuery("#main").children().length, 1, "Make sure there is a child element." );
+	equals( jQuery("#main").children()[0].nodeName.toUpperCase(), "STYLE", "And that a style element was inserted." );
+
 	reset();
 	// using contents will get comments regular, text, and comment nodes
 	var j = jQuery("#nonnodes").contents();