diff --git a/packages/astro/components/ViewTransitions.astro b/packages/astro/components/ViewTransitions.astro
index cb6cbbd33..612b89659 100644
--- a/packages/astro/components/ViewTransitions.astro
+++ b/packages/astro/components/ViewTransitions.astro
@@ -136,18 +136,6 @@ const { fallback = 'animate' } = Astro.props as Props;
// Remove them before swapping.
doc.querySelectorAll('head noscript').forEach((el) => el.remove());
- // swap attributes of the html element
- // - delete all attributes from the current document
- // - insert all attributes from doc
- // - reinsert all original attributes that are named 'data-astro-*'
- const html = document.documentElement;
- const astro = [...html.attributes].filter(
- ({ name }) => (html.removeAttribute(name), name.startsWith('data-astro-'))
- );
- [...doc.documentElement.attributes, ...astro].forEach(({ name, value }) =>
- html.setAttribute(name, value)
- );
-
// Swap head
for (const el of Array.from(document.head.children)) {
const newEl = persistedHeadElement(el);
diff --git a/packages/astro/e2e/fixtures/view-transitions/src/components/AttributedLayout.astro b/packages/astro/e2e/fixtures/view-transitions/src/components/AttributedLayout.astro
deleted file mode 100644
index 7a3284dd4..000000000
--- a/packages/astro/e2e/fixtures/view-transitions/src/components/AttributedLayout.astro
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
----
-import { ViewTransitions } from 'astro:transitions';
-import { HTMLAttributes } from 'astro/types';
-
-interface Props extends HTMLAttributes<'html'> {}
----
-
-
- Testing
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
diff --git a/packages/astro/e2e/fixtures/view-transitions/src/pages/other-attributes.astro b/packages/astro/e2e/fixtures/view-transitions/src/pages/other-attributes.astro
deleted file mode 100644
index ade923277..000000000
--- a/packages/astro/e2e/fixtures/view-transitions/src/pages/other-attributes.astro
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
----
-import AttributeLayout from '../components/AttributedLayout.astro';
----
-
- Page with other attributes
-
diff --git a/packages/astro/e2e/fixtures/view-transitions/src/pages/some-attributes.astro b/packages/astro/e2e/fixtures/view-transitions/src/pages/some-attributes.astro
deleted file mode 100644
index 165ef81c1..000000000
--- a/packages/astro/e2e/fixtures/view-transitions/src/pages/some-attributes.astro
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
----
-import AttributedLayout from '../components/AttributedLayout.astro';
----
-
- Page with some attributes
- Other attributes
-
diff --git a/packages/astro/e2e/view-transitions.test.js b/packages/astro/e2e/view-transitions.test.js
index 57e23e6a9..c681bfea0 100644
--- a/packages/astro/e2e/view-transitions.test.js
+++ b/packages/astro/e2e/view-transitions.test.js
@@ -397,25 +397,3 @@ test.describe('View Transitions', () => {
).toEqual(1);
});
});
-
-test('Navigation also swaps the attributes of the document root', async ({ page, astro }) => {
- page.on('console', (msg) => console.log(msg.text()));
- await page.goto(astro.resolveUrl('/some-attributes'));
- let p = page.locator('#heading');
- await expect(p, 'should have content').toHaveText('Page with some attributes');
-
- let h = page.locator('html');
- await expect(h, 'should have content').toHaveAttribute('lang', 'en');
-
- await page.click('#click-other-attributes');
- p = page.locator('#heading');
- await expect(p, 'should have content').toHaveText('Page with other attributes');
-
- h = page.locator('html');
- await expect(h, 'should have content').toHaveAttribute('lang', 'es');
- await expect(h, 'should have content').toHaveAttribute('style', 'background-color: green');
- await expect(h, 'should have content').toHaveAttribute('data-other-name', 'value');
- await expect(h, 'should have content').toHaveAttribute('data-astro-fake', 'value');
- await expect(h, 'should have content').toHaveAttribute('data-astro-transition', 'forward');
- await expect(h, 'should be absent').not.toHaveAttribute('class', /.*/);
-});