diff --git a/components/style/bloom.rs b/components/style/bloom.rs
index 937c8788728..d3ed204fb1e 100644
--- a/components/style/bloom.rs
+++ b/components/style/bloom.rs
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ impl StyleBloom {
 
         // If the filter represents an element too deep in the dom, we need to
         // pop ancestors.
-        while current_depth >= element_depth - 1 {
+        while current_depth > element_depth - 1 {
             self.pop::<E>().expect("Emilio is bad at math");
             current_depth -= 1;
         }