diff --git a/dlls/mshtml/txtrange.c b/dlls/mshtml/txtrange.c
index b7c04f9..4e67af9 100644
--- a/dlls/mshtml/txtrange.c
+++ b/dlls/mshtml/txtrange.c
@@ -903,12 +903,14 @@ static HRESULT WINAPI HTMLTxtRange_get_text(IHTMLTxtRange *iface, BSTR *p)
TRACE("(%p)->(%p)\n", This, p);
+ *p = NULL;
+ if(!This->nsrange)
+ return S_OK;
+
wstrbuf_init(&buf);
range_to_string(This, &buf);
if(buf.buf)
*p = SysAllocString(buf.buf);
- else
- *p = NULL;
wstrbuf_finish(&buf);
TRACE("ret %s\n", debugstr_w(*p));