diff --git a/r2/r2/templates/mediaembedbody.html b/r2/r2/templates/mediaembedbody.html
index 39fcc3673..aeb177cd4 100644
--- a/r2/r2/templates/mediaembedbody.html
+++ b/r2/r2/templates/mediaembedbody.html
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 ## reddit Inc. All Rights Reserved.
 ###############################################################################
 
-<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
+<!doctype html>
 <html>
   <head>
     <style type="text/css">
