diff --git a/src/core/box.ts b/src/core/box.ts
index 219792fc0..8e570cecd 100644
--- a/src/core/box.ts
+++ b/src/core/box.ts
@@ -423,15 +423,17 @@ export class Box implements BoxInterface {
             .filter((x, e, a) => x.length > 0 && a.indexOf(x) === e)
             .join(' ');
 
-    if (classList.length > 0) props += ` class="${classList}"`;
+    if (classList.length > 0)
+      props += ` class=${sanitizeAttributeValue(`"${classList}"`)}`;
 
     //
     // 3.2 Id
     //
-    if (this.id) props += ` data-atom-id=${this.id}`;
+    if (this.id) props += ` data-atom-id=${sanitizeAttributeValue(this.id)}`;
 
     // A (HTML5) CSS id may not contain a space
-    if (this.cssId) props += ` id="${this.cssId.replace(/ /g, '-')}" `;
+    if (this.cssId)
+      props += ` id=${sanitizeAttributeValue(`"${this.cssId.replace(/ /g, '-')}"`)}`;
 
     //
     // 3.3 Attributes
@@ -440,7 +442,10 @@ export class Box implements BoxInterface {
       props +=
         ' ' +
         Object.keys(this.attributes)
-          .map((x) => `${x}="${this.attributes![x]}"`)
+          .map(
+            (x) =>
+              `${sanitizeAttributeName(x)}=${sanitizeAttributeValue(`"${this.attributes![x]}"`)}`
+          )
           .join(' ');
     }
 
@@ -449,11 +454,12 @@ export class Box implements BoxInterface {
       for (const entry of entries) {
         const matched = entry.match(/([^=]+)=(.+$)/);
         if (matched) {
-          const key = matched[1].trim().replace(/ /g, '-');
-          if (key) props += ` data-${key}="${matched[2]}" `;
+          const key = sanitizeAttributeName(matched[1]);
+          const value = sanitizeAttributeValue(matched[2]);
+          if (key) props += ` ${key}=${value}`;
         } else {
-          const key = entry.trim().replace(/ /g, '-');
-          if (key) props += ` data-${key} `;
+          const key = sanitizeAttributeName(entry);
+          if (key) props += ` ${key} `;
         }
       }
     }
@@ -488,10 +494,12 @@ export class Box implements BoxInterface {
           if (key) styleString += `${key}:${matched[2]};`;
         }
       }
-      if (styleString) props += ` style="${styleString}"`;
+      if (styleString)
+        props += ` style=${sanitizeAttributeValue(`"${styleString}"`)};`;
     }
 
-    if (styles.length > 0) props += ` style="${styles.join(';')}"`;
+    if (styles.length > 0)
+      props += ` style=${sanitizeAttributeValue(`"${styles.join(';')}"`)}`;
 
     //
     // 4. Tag markup
@@ -736,3 +744,41 @@ function horizontalLayout(box: Box, fontName: FontName): void {
     box.maxFontSize = maxFontSize;
   }
 }
+
+function sanitizeAttributeName(attribute: string): string {
+  attribute = attribute.trim().replace(/ /g, '-');
+
+  /**
+   * https://w3c.github.io/html-reference/syntax.html#syntax-attributes
+   *
+   * > Attribute Names must consist of one or more characters
+   * other than the space characters, U+0000 NULL,
+   * '"', "'", ">", "/", "=", the control characters,
+   * and any characters that are not defined by Unicode.
+   */
+  const invalidAttributeNameRegex = /[\s"'>/=\x00-\x1f]/;
+  if (invalidAttributeNameRegex.test(attribute))
+    throw new Error(`Invalid attribute name: ${attribute}`);
+
+  return attribute;
+}
+
+function sanitizeAttributeValue(value: string): string {
+  value = value.trim();
+
+  if (value.startsWith('"') && value.endsWith('"')) {
+    // Must not contain any `"`
+    if (value.slice(1, -1).match(/"/))
+      throw new Error(`Invalid attribute value: ${value}`);
+  } else if (value.startsWith("'") && value.endsWith("'")) {
+    // Must not contain any `'`
+    if (value.slice(1, -1).match(/'/))
+      throw new Error(`Invalid attribute value: ${value}`);
+  } else {
+    // Must not contain any literal space characters, `"`, `'`, `=`, `>`, `<` or backtick characters
+    if (value.match(/[\s"'`=><`]/))
+      throw new Error(`Invalid attribute value: ${value}`);
+  }
+
+  return value;
+}
diff --git a/src/editor-mathfield/render.ts b/src/editor-mathfield/render.ts
index f6c4a2b84..9e2052e8f 100644
--- a/src/editor-mathfield/render.ts
+++ b/src/editor-mathfield/render.ts
@@ -102,41 +102,46 @@ export function contentMarkup(
   mathfield: _Mathfield,
   renderOptions?: { forHighlighting?: boolean; interactive?: boolean }
 ): string {
-  //
-  // 1. Update selection state and blinking cursor (caret)
-  //
-  const { model } = mathfield;
-  model.root.caret = undefined;
-  model.root.isSelected = false;
-  model.root.containsCaret = true;
-  for (const atom of model.atoms) {
-    atom.caret = undefined;
-    atom.isSelected = false;
-    atom.containsCaret = false;
-  }
-  if (model.selectionIsCollapsed) {
-    const atom = model.at(model.position);
-    atom.caret = mathfield.model.mode;
-    let ancestor = atom.parent;
-    while (ancestor) {
-      ancestor.containsCaret = true;
-      ancestor = ancestor.parent;
+  try {
+    //
+    // 1. Update selection state and blinking cursor (caret)
+    //
+    const { model } = mathfield;
+    model.root.caret = undefined;
+    model.root.isSelected = false;
+    model.root.containsCaret = true;
+    for (const atom of model.atoms) {
+      atom.caret = undefined;
+      atom.isSelected = false;
+      atom.containsCaret = false;
+    }
+    if (model.selectionIsCollapsed) {
+      const atom = model.at(model.position);
+      atom.caret = mathfield.model.mode;
+      let ancestor = atom.parent;
+      while (ancestor) {
+        ancestor.containsCaret = true;
+        ancestor = ancestor.parent;
+      }
+    } else {
+      const atoms = model.getAtoms(model.selection, { includeChildren: true });
+      for (const atom of atoms) atom.isSelected = true;
     }
-  } else {
-    const atoms = model.getAtoms(model.selection, { includeChildren: true });
-    for (const atom of atoms) atom.isSelected = true;
-  }
 
-  //
-  // 2. Render a box representation of the mathfield content
-  //
-  const box = makeBox(mathfield, renderOptions);
+    //
+    // 2. Render a box representation of the mathfield content
+    //
+    const box = makeBox(mathfield, renderOptions);
 
-  //
-  // 3. Generate markup
-  //
+    //
+    // 3. Generate markup
+    //
 
-  return box.toMarkup();
+    return box.toMarkup();
+  } catch (e) {
+    console.error(e);
+    return '<span class="ML__latex" translate="no" aria-hidden="true">💣</span>';
+  }
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/src/public/mathfield-element.ts b/src/public/mathfield-element.ts
index 7885d37b2..2cc8bce2f 100644
--- a/src/public/mathfield-element.ts
+++ b/src/public/mathfield-element.ts
@@ -789,7 +789,7 @@ export class MathfieldElement extends HTMLElement implements Mathfield {
   }
 
   /**
-   * Support for [Trusted Type](https://w3c.github.io/webappsec-trusted-types/dist/spec/).
+   * Support for [Trusted Type](https://www.w3.org/TR/trusted-types/).
    *
    * This optional function will be called before a string of HTML is
    * injected in the DOM, allowing that string to be sanitized