diff --git a/addons/website/models/website_snippet_filter.py b/addons/website/models/website_snippet_filter.py
index e2266fdf558..b8041f398e3 100644
--- a/addons/website/models/website_snippet_filter.py
+++ b/addons/website/models/website_snippet_filter.py
@@ -5,8 +5,7 @@ from collections import OrderedDict
 from odoo import models, fields, api, _
 from odoo.exceptions import ValidationError, MissingError
 from odoo.osv import expression
-from odoo.tools import html_escape as escape
-from lxml import etree as ET
+from lxml import etree, html
 import logging
 from random import randint
 
@@ -77,7 +76,7 @@ class WebsiteSnippetFilter(models.Model):
             records=records,
             is_sample=is_sample,
         ))
-        return [ET.tostring(el, encoding='unicode') for el in ET.fromstring('<root>%s</root>' % str(content)).getchildren()]
+        return [etree.tostring(el, encoding='unicode') for el in html.fromstring('<root>%s</root>' % str(content)).getchildren()]
 
     def _prepare_values(self, limit=None, search_domain=None):
         """Gets the data and returns it the right format for render."""