diff --git a/src/form.cc b/src/form.cc
index aaadaea..6a60247 100644
--- a/src/form.cc
+++ b/src/form.cc
@@ -678,24 +678,24 @@ void Html_tag_close_textarea(DilloHtml *html)
 
    if (html->InFlags & IN_TEXTAREA && !S_TOP(html)->display_none) {
       /* Remove the line ending that follows the opening tag */
-      if (html->Stash->str[0] == '\r')
-         dStr_erase(html->Stash, 0, 1);
-      if (html->Stash->str[0] == '\n')
-         dStr_erase(html->Stash, 0, 1);
+      if (html->Stash[0] == '\r')
+         html->Stash.erase( 0, 1 );
+      if (html->Stash[0] == '\n')
+         html->Stash.erase( 0, 1 );
 
       /* As the spec recommends to canonicalize line endings, it is safe
        * to replace '\r' with '\n'. It will be canonicalized anyway! */
-      for (i = 0; i < html->Stash->len; ++i) {
-         if (html->Stash->str[i] == '\r') {
-            if (html->Stash->str[i + 1] == '\n')
-               dStr_erase(html->Stash, i, 1);
+      for (i = 0; i < html->Stash.size(); ++i) {
+         if (html->Stash[i] == '\r') {
+            if (html->Stash[i + 1] == '\n')
+               html->Stash.erase( i, 1 );
             else
-               html->Stash->str[i] = '\n';
+               html->Stash[i] = '\n';
          }
       }
 
       /* The HTML3.2 spec says it can have "text and character entities". */
-      auto  str = a_Html_parse_entities(html, html->Stash->str, html->Stash->len);
+      auto  str = a_Html_parse_entities(html, html->Stash.c_str(), html->Stash.size());
       auto input = Html_get_current_input(*html);
       if (input) {
          input->init_str = str;
@@ -1973,6 +1973,6 @@ static void Html_option_finish(DilloHtml *html)
        (input->type == DILLO_HTML_INPUT_SELECT ||
         input->type == DILLO_HTML_INPUT_SEL_LIST)) {
       DilloHtmlOptbase *opt = input->select->getCurrentOpt ();
-      opt->setContent (html->Stash->str, html->Stash->len);
+      opt->setContent (html->Stash.c_str(), html->Stash.size());
    }
 }
diff --git a/src/html.cc b/src/html.cc
index 2f96140..ec17d0f 100644
--- a/src/html.cc
+++ b/src/html.cc
@@ -491,7 +491,6 @@ DilloHtml::DilloHtml(BrowserWindow *p_bw, const DilloUrl *url,
 
    InFlags = IN_NONE;
 
-   Stash = dStr_new("");
    StashSpace = false;
 
    pre_column = 0;
@@ -603,7 +602,6 @@ int DilloHtml::getCurrLineNumber()
  */
 void DilloHtml::freeParseData()
 {
-   dStr_free(Stash, TRUE);
    dStr_free(attr_data, TRUE);
 }
 
@@ -814,7 +812,7 @@ void a_Html_stash_init(DilloHtml *html)
 {
    S_TOP(html)->parse_mode = DILLO_HTML_PARSE_MODE_STASH;
    html->StashSpace = false;
-   dStr_truncate(html->Stash, 0);
+   html->Stash.clear();
 }
 
 /**
@@ -1104,10 +1102,10 @@ static void Html_process_space(DilloHtml *html, const char *space,
    if (S_TOP(html)->display_none) {
       /* do nothing */
    } else if (parse_mode == DILLO_HTML_PARSE_MODE_STASH) {
-      html->StashSpace = (html->Stash->len > 0);
+      html->StashSpace = not html->Stash.empty();
 
    } else if (parse_mode == DILLO_HTML_PARSE_MODE_VERBATIM) {
-      dStr_append_l(html->Stash, space, spacesize);
+      html->Stash+= std::string_view{ space, space + spacesize };
 
    } else if (parse_mode == DILLO_HTML_PARSE_MODE_PRE) {
       int spaceCnt = 0;
@@ -1168,7 +1166,7 @@ static void Html_process_space(DilloHtml *html, const char *space,
       }
 
       if (parse_mode == DILLO_HTML_PARSE_MODE_STASH_AND_BODY)
-         html->StashSpace = (html->Stash->len > 0);
+         html->StashSpace = not html->Stash.empty();
    }
 }
 
@@ -1195,15 +1193,14 @@ static void Html_process_word(DilloHtml *html, const char *word, int size)
    if (parse_mode == DILLO_HTML_PARSE_MODE_STASH ||
        parse_mode == DILLO_HTML_PARSE_MODE_STASH_AND_BODY) {
       if (html->StashSpace) {
-         dStr_append_c(html->Stash, ' ');
+         html->Stash+= ' ';
          html->StashSpace = false;
       }
-      const std::string Pword= a_Html_parse_entities(html, word, size);
-      dStr_append(html->Stash, Pword.c_str());
+      html->Stash+= a_Html_parse_entities(html, word, size);
 
    } else if (parse_mode == DILLO_HTML_PARSE_MODE_VERBATIM) {
       /* word goes in untouched, it is not processed here. */
-      dStr_append_l(html->Stash, word, size);
+      html->Stash+= std::string_view{ word, word + size };
    }
 
    if (parse_mode == DILLO_HTML_PARSE_MODE_STASH ||
@@ -1667,7 +1664,7 @@ static void Html_tag_close_title(DilloHtml *html)
    /* title is only valid inside HEAD */
    if (html->InFlags & IN_HEAD && html->Num_TITLE == 1) {
       /* Ignore empty titles: <title></title> */
-      char *title = html->Stash->str;
+      const char *title = html->Stash.c_str();
       if (!title || title[0] == '\0')
          return;
       a_UIcmd_set_page_title(html->bw, title);
@@ -1730,8 +1727,8 @@ static void Html_tag_open_style(DilloHtml *html, const char *tag, int tagsize)
 static void Html_tag_close_style(DilloHtml *html)
 {
    if (prefs.parse_embedded_css && html->loadCssFromStash)
-      html->styleEngine->parse(html, html->base_url.get(), html->Stash->str,
-                               html->Stash->len, CSS_ORIGIN_AUTHOR);
+      html->styleEngine->parse(html, html->base_url.get(), html->Stash.c_str(),
+                               html->Stash.size(), CSS_ORIGIN_AUTHOR);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -4262,9 +4259,8 @@ static int Html_write_raw(DilloHtml *html, char *buf, int bufsize, int Eof)
             } else if (strncmp(buf + buf_index, "</", 2) == 0 &&
                        Html_match_tag(tag, buf+buf_index+2, strlen(tag)+1)) {
                /* copy VERBATIM text into the stash buffer */
-               text = dStrndup(buf + token_start, buf_index - token_start);
-               dStr_append(html->Stash, text);
-               dFree(text);
+               const std::string text{ buf + token_start, buf + buf_index };
+               html->Stash+= text.c_str();
                token_start = buf_index;
                break;
             } else
diff --git a/src/html_common.hh b/src/html_common.hh
index 0b375be..f62685f 100644
--- a/src/html_common.hh
+++ b/src/html_common.hh
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ public:  //BUG: for now everything is public
 
    int InFlags; /**< tracks which elements we are in */
 
-   Dstr *Stash;
+   std::string Stash;
    bool StashSpace;
 
    int pre_column;        /**< current column, used in PRE tags with tabs */