diff --git a/src/HtmlUtils.js b/src/HtmlUtils.js
index c7b13bc071..ad91d2f61f 100644
--- a/src/HtmlUtils.js
+++ b/src/HtmlUtils.js
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ var sanitizeHtmlParams = {
         // We don't currently allow img itself by default, but this
         // would make sense if we did
         img: ['src'],
+        ol: ['start'],
     },
     // Lots of these won't come up by default because we don't allow them
     selfClosing: ['img', 'br', 'hr', 'area', 'base', 'basefont', 'input', 'link', 'meta'],