diff --git a/src/app/pluginmanager/qgspluginmanager.cpp b/src/app/pluginmanager/qgspluginmanager.cpp
index 36e6466636bdb..f7e8b78229d04 100644
--- a/src/app/pluginmanager/qgspluginmanager.cpp
+++ b/src/app/pluginmanager/qgspluginmanager.cpp
@@ -1372,7 +1372,6 @@ void QgsPluginManager::setCurrentTab( int idx )
     {
       tabInfoHTML += "<style>"
                      "  body, p {"
-                     "      background-color: white;"
                      "      margin: 2px;"
                      "      font-family: Verdana, Sans-serif;"
                      "      font-size: 10pt;"