diff --git a/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/extractor/ExtractorHTML.java b/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/extractor/ExtractorHTML.java
index 9122cf18c..195392795 100644
--- a/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/extractor/ExtractorHTML.java
+++ b/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/extractor/ExtractorHTML.java
@@ -76,9 +76,29 @@ public class ExtractorHTML extends ContentExtractor implements InitializingBean
 
     public final static String A_META_ROBOTS = "meta-robots";
     
+    {
+        setMaxElementLength(64); 
+    }
+    public int getMaxElementLength() {
+        return (Integer) kp.get("maxElementLength");
+    }
+    public void setMaxElementLength(int max) {
+        kp.put("maxElementLength",max);
+    }
+      
     
     /**
      * Compiled relevant tag extractor.
+     * 
+     * HER-1998 - Modified part 8 to allow conditional html comments.
+     * Conditional HTML comment example:
+     * "<!--[if expression]> HTML <![endif]-->"
+     * 
+     * This technique is commonly used to reference CSS & JavaScript that are designed to deal with the quirks of a specific version of Internet Explorer.
+     * There is another syntax for conditional comments which already gets parsed by the regex since it doesn't start with "<!--"
+     * Ex. <!if expression> HTML <!endif>
+     * 
+     * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_Comments
      *
      * <p>
      * This pattern extracts either:
@@ -98,23 +118,12 @@ public class ExtractorHTML extends ContentExtractor implements InitializingBean
      * <li> 7: META
      * <li> 8: !-- comment --
      */
-// version w/ less unnecessary backtracking
-    
-    {
-        setMaxElementLength(64); 
-    }
-    public int getMaxElementLength() {
-        return (Integer) kp.get("maxElementLength");
-    }
-    public void setMaxElementLength(int max) {
-        kp.put("maxElementLength",max);
-    }
-      
+    // version w/ less unnecessary backtracking
     static final String RELEVANT_TAG_EXTRACTOR =
       "(?is)<(?:((script[^>]*+)>.*?</script)" + // 1, 2
       "|((style[^>]*+)>.*?</style)" + // 3, 4
       "|(((meta)|(?:\\w{1,"+MAX_ELEMENT_REPLACE+"}))\\s+[^>]*+)" + // 5, 6, 7
-      "|(!--.*?--))>"; // 8 
+      "|(!--(?!\\[if).*?--))>"; // 8 
 
 //    version w/ problems with unclosed script tags 
 //    static final String RELEVANT_TAG_EXTRACTOR =
diff --git a/modules/src/test/java/org/archive/modules/extractor/ExtractorHTMLTest.java b/modules/src/test/java/org/archive/modules/extractor/ExtractorHTMLTest.java
index fae65d525..c17c4cb82 100644
--- a/modules/src/test/java/org/archive/modules/extractor/ExtractorHTMLTest.java
+++ b/modules/src/test/java/org/archive/modules/extractor/ExtractorHTMLTest.java
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ public class ExtractorHTMLTest extends StringExtractorTestBase {
 
         "<img src=\"foo.gif\"> IMG",
         "http://www.archive.org/start/foo.gif",
+        
     };
     
         
@@ -379,5 +380,39 @@ public void testFlashvarsEmbedAttribute() throws URIException {
         assertTrue("outlinks should contain: "+expected,
                 CollectionUtils.exists(curi.getOutLinks(),destinationsIsPredicate(expected)));
     }
+    
+    /**
+     * HER-1998 
+     * @throws URIException 
+     */
+    public  void testConditionalComment1() throws URIException {
+        CrawlURI curi = new CrawlURI(UURIFactory.getInstance("http://www.example.com/"));
+    
+        CharSequence cs = 
+            "<!--[if IE 6]><img src=\"foo.gif\"><![endif]-->" +
+            "<!--[if IE 6]><script src=\"foo.js\"><![endif]-->";
+ 
+        ExtractorHTML extractor = new ExtractorHTML();
+        UriErrorLoggerModule ulm = new UnitTestUriLoggerModule();  
+        extractor.setLoggerModule(ulm);
+        CrawlMetadata metadata = new CrawlMetadata();
+        metadata.afterPropertiesSet();
+        extractor.setMetadata(metadata);
+        extractor.afterPropertiesSet();
+        
+        extractor.extract(curi, cs);
+        
+        Link[] links = curi.getOutLinks().toArray(new Link[0]);
+        Arrays.sort(links); 
+        
+        String dest1 = "http://www.example.com/foo.gif";
+        String dest2 = "http://www.example.com/foo.js";
+
+        assertEquals("outlink1 from conditional comment img src",dest1,
+                links[0].getDestination().toString());
+        assertEquals("outlink2 from conditional comment script src",dest2,
+                links[1].getDestination().toString());
+        
+    }
         
 }