diff --git a/src/html.cc b/src/html.cc
index 18e755b..1e6f3f6 100644
--- a/src/html.cc
+++ b/src/html.cc
@@ -505,8 +505,6 @@ DilloHtml::DilloHtml(BrowserWindow *p_bw, const DilloUrl *url,
 
    Num_HTML = Num_HEAD = Num_BODY = Num_TITLE = 0;
 
-   attr_data = dStr_sized_new(1024);
-
    non_css_link_color = -1;
    non_css_visited_color = -1;
    visited_color = -1;
@@ -542,8 +540,6 @@ DilloHtml::~DilloHtml()
 {
    _MSG("::~DilloHtml(this=%p)\n", this);
 
-   freeParseData();
-
    a_Bw_remove_doc(bw, this);
 }
 
@@ -592,14 +588,6 @@ int DilloHtml::getCurrLineNumber()
    return line;
 }
 
-/**
- * Free parsing data.
- */
-void DilloHtml::freeParseData()
-{
-   dStr_free(attr_data, TRUE);
-}
-
 /**
  * Finish parsing a HTML page. Close the parser and close the client.
  * The class is not deleted here, it remains until the widget is destroyed.
@@ -2577,20 +2565,20 @@ static const char* Html_get_javascript_link(DilloHtml *html)
 {
    size_t i;
    char ch, *p1, *p2;
-   Dstr *Buf = html->attr_data;
+   std::string &Buf = html->attr_data;
 
-   if (dStrnAsciiCasecmp("javascript", Buf->str, 10) == 0) {
-      i = strcspn(Buf->str, "'\"");
-      ch = Buf->str[i];
+   if (dStrnAsciiCasecmp("javascript", Buf.c_str(), 10) == 0) {
+      i = strcspn(Buf.c_str(), "'\"");
+      ch = Buf.at( i );
       if ((ch == '"' || ch == '\'') &&
-          (p2 = strchr(Buf->str + i + 1 , ch))) {
-         p1 = Buf->str + i;
+          (p2 = strchr(Buf.data() + i + 1 , ch))) {
+         p1 = Buf.data() + i;
          BUG_MSG("Link depends on javascript().");
-         dStr_truncate(Buf, p2 - Buf->str);
-         dStr_erase(Buf, 0, p1 - Buf->str + 1);
+         while( Buf.size() > ( p2 - Buf.c_str() ) ) Buf.pop_back();
+         Buf.erase( 0, p1 - Buf.c_str() + 1 );
       }
    }
-   return Buf->str;
+   return Buf.c_str();
 }
 
 /**
@@ -4085,12 +4073,12 @@ static const char *Html_get_attr2(DilloHtml *html,
                                   int tag_parsing_flags)
 {
    int i, entsize, Found = 0, delimiter = 0, attr_pos = 0;
-   Dstr *Buf = html->attr_data;
+   std::string &Buf = html->attr_data;
    DilloHtmlTagParsingState state = SEEK_ATTR_START;
 
    dReturn_val_if_fail(*attrname, NULL);
 
-   dStr_truncate(Buf, 0);
+   Buf.clear();
 
    for (i = 1; i < tagsize; ++i) {
       switch (state) {
@@ -4148,17 +4136,17 @@ static const char *Html_get_attr2(DilloHtml *html,
 
             if ((entstr = Html_parse_entity(html, tag+i, tagsize-i, &entsize,
                                             is_attr))) {
-               dStr_append(Buf, entstr);
+               Buf+= entstr;
                i += entsize-1;
             } else {
-               dStr_append_c(Buf, tag[i]);
+               Buf+= tag[i];
             }
          } else if (tag[i] == '\r' || tag[i] == '\t') {
-            dStr_append_c(Buf, ' ');
+            Buf+= ' ';
          } else if (tag[i] == '\n') {
             /* ignore */
          } else {
-            dStr_append_c(Buf, tag[i]);
+            Buf+= tag[i];
          }
          break;
 
@@ -4169,13 +4157,13 @@ static const char *Html_get_attr2(DilloHtml *html,
    }
 
    if (tag_parsing_flags & HTML_LeftTrim)
-      while (isspace(Buf->str[0]))
-         dStr_erase(Buf, 0, 1);
+      while (isspace(Buf.front()))
+         Buf.erase( 0, 1 );
    if (tag_parsing_flags & HTML_RightTrim)
-      while (Buf->len && isspace(Buf->str[Buf->len - 1]))
-         dStr_truncate(Buf, Buf->len - 1);
+      while (Buf.size() && isspace( Buf.back() ))
+         Buf.pop_back();
 
-   return (Found) ? Buf->str : NULL;
+   return (Found) ? Buf.c_str() : NULL;
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/src/html_common.hh b/src/html_common.hh
index f62685f..cc8e7cd 100644
--- a/src/html_common.hh
+++ b/src/html_common.hh
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ public:  //BUG: for now everything is public
     * ATM they're used as three state flags {0,1,>1} */
    uchar_t Num_HTML, Num_HEAD, Num_BODY, Num_TITLE;
 
-   Dstr *attr_data;       /**< Buffer for attribute value */
+   std::string attr_data;       /**< Buffer for attribute value */
 
    int32_t non_css_link_color; /**< as provided by link attribute in BODY */
    int32_t non_css_visited_color; /**< as provided by vlink attribute in BODY */
@@ -230,7 +230,6 @@ public:  //BUG: for now everything is public
    dw::ImageMapsList maps;
 
 private:
-   void freeParseData();
    void initDw();  /* Used by the constructor */
 
 public: