diff --git a/src/webenginewidgets/api/qwebenginepage.cpp b/src/webenginewidgets/api/qwebenginepage.cpp
index 6d20088dfe2647ad737effeca4bff22d51d83e47..eedf76d1b178881f0e66b62add1aa9e665e414ca 100644
--- a/src/webenginewidgets/api/qwebenginepage.cpp
+++ b/src/webenginewidgets/api/qwebenginepage.cpp
@@ -524,7 +524,6 @@ void QWebEnginePage::toPlainText(const QWebEngineCallback<const QString &> &resu
 
 void QWebEnginePage::setHtml(const QString &html, const QUrl &baseUrl)
 {
-    Q_D(QWebEnginePage);
     setContent(html.toUtf8(), QStringLiteral("text/html;charset=UTF-8"), baseUrl);
 }