diff --git a/crawl4ai/content_scraping_strategy.py b/crawl4ai/content_scraping_strategy.py
index 9853f788f..9cdc53cfd 100644
--- a/crawl4ai/content_scraping_strategy.py
+++ b/crawl4ai/content_scraping_strategy.py
@@ -562,6 +562,14 @@ def remove_empty_elements_fast(self, root, word_count_threshold=5):
             ):
                 parent = el.getparent()
                 if parent is not None:
+                    # Preserve .tail text before removing the element
+                    tail = el.tail
+                    if tail:
+                        prev = el.getprevious()
+                        if prev is not None:
+                            prev.tail = (prev.tail or "") + tail
+                        else:
+                            parent.text = (parent.text or "") + tail
                     parent.remove(el)
 
         return root