diff --git a/backend/open_webui/retrieval/loaders/main.py b/backend/open_webui/retrieval/loaders/main.py
index a91496e8e8..e57323e1eb 100644
--- a/backend/open_webui/retrieval/loaders/main.py
+++ b/backend/open_webui/retrieval/loaders/main.py
@@ -226,7 +226,10 @@ class Loader:
 
     def _is_text_file(self, file_ext: str, file_content_type: str) -> bool:
         return file_ext in known_source_ext or (
-            file_content_type and file_content_type.find("text/") >= 0
+            file_content_type
+            and file_content_type.find("text/") >= 0
+            # Avoid text/html files being detected as text
+            and not file_content_type.find("html") >= 0
         )
 
     def _get_loader(self, filename: str, file_content_type: str, file_path: str):