diff --git a/lib/main/build-site.js b/lib/main/build-site.js
index f1ea66a3e..69a45e6e7 100644
--- a/lib/main/build-site.js
+++ b/lib/main/build-site.js
@@ -96,37 +96,19 @@ function build(type) {
 
   // Unwrap elements containing only text.
   $('.highlight :not([class])').each(function() {
-    const $el = $(this);
-    if (_.every($(el).children(), ['type', 'text'])) {
+    let $el = $(this);
+    while ($el[0] && _.every($el.children(), ['type', 'text'])) {
       $el.replaceWith($el.text());
+      $el = $el.parent();
     }
   });
 
-  // Consolidate hightlights comments.
+  // Collapse hightlights comments.
   $('.highlight [class~="comment"] > [class~="comment"]').each(function() {
     const $parent = $(this).parent();
     $parent.text($parent.text());
   });
 
-  // Minify hightlights snippets.
-  $('.highlight').each(function() {
-    const $div = $(this);
-    $div.html(minify($div.html(), {
-      'collapseBooleanAttributes': true,
-      'collapseInlineTagWhitespace': true,
-      'collapseWhitespace': true,
-      'removeAttributeQuotes': true,
-      'removeComments': true,
-      'removeEmptyAttributes': true,
-      'removeEmptyElements': true,
-      'removeOptionalTags': true,
-      'removeRedundantAttributes': true
-    })
-    .replace(/(?:<span>[^<]+<\/span>){2,}/g, match =>
-      match.replace(/<\/?span>/g, '')
-    ));
-  });
-
   const html = [
     // Append YAML front matter.
     '---',
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 997ed51f8..9cc09e303 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@
     "ecstatic": "^2.1.0",
     "fs-extra": "~0.30.0",
     "glob": "^7.0.6",
-    "html-minifier": "^3.0.2",
     "istanbul": "0.4.5",
     "jquery": "^3.1.0",
     "jscs": "^3.0.7",