diff --git a/code/nel/src/gui/group_html.cpp b/code/nel/src/gui/group_html.cpp
index db2db7748..98b908c7d 100644
--- a/code/nel/src/gui/group_html.cpp
+++ b/code/nel/src/gui/group_html.cpp
@@ -4163,7 +4163,7 @@ namespace NLGUI
 
 	void CGroupHTML::renderDocument()
 	{
-		if (!_StylesheetQueue.empty())
+		if (!Curls.empty() && !_StylesheetQueue.empty())
 		{
 			// waiting for stylesheets to finish downloading
 			return;