diff --git a/moli-parser/src/live_target.rs b/moli-parser/src/live_target.rs
index df57ad594d..d291962c5a 100644
--- a/moli-parser/src/live_target.rs
+++ b/moli-parser/src/live_target.rs
@@ -3970,6 +3970,45 @@ fn parser_stream_marks_only_eof_unclosed_form_controls_as_submission_blocking()
     }
 }
 
+#[test]
+fn live_fragment_parser_preserves_the_contexts_submission_blocking_state() {
+    for (tag_name, html) in [("select", "<option>value</option>"), ("textarea", "value")] {
+        for blocked in [false, true] {
+            let url = Url::parse("https://fragment.test/").expect("test url");
+            let mut dom_host = DomHost::from_dom(NativeDom::new_html(url.clone()));
+            let document = dom_host.document_handle();
+            let context = dom_host.create_element(tag_name);
+            dom_host.set_blocks_form_submission(context, blocked);
+            let fragment = dom_host.create_document_fragment();
+            let mut effects = DomMutationEffects::default();
+            let mut collector = TestMutationEffectCollector {
+                host: &mut dom_host,
+                effects: &mut effects,
+                panic_on_mutation: false,
+            };
+            crate::HtmlParser::with_scripting_enabled(true).parse_fragment_into_live_dom(
+                url,
+                fragment,
+                document,
+                context,
+                "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml",
+                tag_name,
+                html,
+                &mut collector,
+                false,
+            );
+            assert_eq!(
+                dom_host
+                    .node(context)
+                    .and_then(Node::as_element)
+                    .is_some_and(|element| element.blocks_form_submission()),
+                blocked,
+                "fragment parsing must preserve {tag_name}'s pre-existing EOF state"
+            );
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn parser_stream_async_prefetch_uses_shared_script_type_classification() {
     let html = concat!(
diff --git a/moli-parser/src/session.rs b/moli-parser/src/session.rs
index 5bb637492e..ece58eeb58 100644
--- a/moli-parser/src/session.rs
+++ b/moli-parser/src/session.rs
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ enum TokenizerPause {
 
 struct EmbedderPausingTreeBuilder {
     inner: TreeBuilder<ParseHandle, DocumentSink>,
+    fragment_context: Option<NativeNodeId>,
     // Retain a callback's Break until html5ever accepts a pause result. This is
     // an undelivered notification, not a copy of the owner's current run state;
     // it must survive both later Continue callbacks and input chunk boundaries.
@@ -56,6 +57,7 @@ struct EmbedderPausingTreeBuilder {
 #[derive(Default)]
 struct OpenFormControlTracer {
     handles: RefCell<Vec<NativeNodeId>>,
+    fragment_context: Option<NativeNodeId>,
 }
 
 impl Tracer for OpenFormControlTracer {
@@ -72,6 +74,11 @@ impl Tracer for OpenFormControlTracer {
         let Some(node_id) = node.dom_node_id() else {
             return;
         };
+        // html5ever also traces the fragment context for GC. It is an existing
+        // element, not an unclosed control created by this parser.
+        if Some(node_id) == self.fragment_context {
+            return;
+        }
         let mut handles = self.handles.borrow_mut();
         if !handles.contains(&node_id) {
             handles.push(node_id);
@@ -83,6 +90,7 @@ impl EmbedderPausingTreeBuilder {
     fn new(sink: DocumentSink, opts: TreeBuilderOpts) -> Self {
         Self {
             inner: TreeBuilder::new(sink, opts),
+            fragment_context: None,
             deferred_owner_interruption: Cell::new(false),
         }
     }
@@ -92,8 +100,10 @@ impl EmbedderPausingTreeBuilder {
         context_handle: ParseHandle,
         opts: TreeBuilderOpts,
     ) -> Self {
+        let fragment_context = context_handle.dom_node_id();
         Self {
             inner: TreeBuilder::new_for_fragment(sink, context_handle, None, opts),
+            fragment_context,
             deferred_owner_interruption: Cell::new(false),
         }
     }
@@ -103,7 +113,10 @@ impl EmbedderPausingTreeBuilder {
     }
 
     fn begin_tree_builder_finish(&self) {
-        let tracer = OpenFormControlTracer::default();
+        let tracer = OpenFormControlTracer {
+            fragment_context: self.fragment_context,
+            ..OpenFormControlTracer::default()
+        };
         self.inner.trace_handles(&tracer);
         self.inner
             .sink