diff --git a/code/__HELPERS/text.dm b/code/__HELPERS/text.dm
index 264f8cc73f1..27f8526c2e1 100644
--- a/code/__HELPERS/text.dm
+++ b/code/__HELPERS/text.dm
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
 // Used to get a properly sanitized input, of max_length
 /proc/stripped_input(mob/user, message = "", title = "", default = "", max_length=MAX_MESSAGE_LEN)
 	var/name = input(user, message, title, default) as text|null
-	return html_encode(trim(name, max_length)) //trim is "inside" because html_encode can expand single symbols into multiple symbols (such as turning < into &lt;)
+	return trim(html_encode(name), max_length) //trim is "outside" because html_encode can expand single symbols into multiple symbols (such as turning < into &lt;)
 
 // Used to get a properly sanitized multiline input, of max_length
 /proc/stripped_multiline_input(mob/user, message = "", title = "", default = "", max_length=MAX_MESSAGE_LEN)
@@ -411,4 +411,4 @@ var/list/binary = list("0","1")
 	t = replacetext(t, "\[list\]", "<ul>")
 	t = replacetext(t, "\[/list\]", "</ul>")
 
-	return t
\ No newline at end of file
+	return t