diff --git a/src/parser.js b/src/parser.js
index 256cdb2009a..a4592642a65 100644
--- a/src/parser.js
+++ b/src/parser.js
@@ -1001,22 +1001,26 @@
         if (styleContents.trim() === '') {
           continue;
         }
-        rules = styleContents.match(/[^{]*\{[\s\S]*?\}/g);
-        rules = rules.map(function(rule) { return rule.trim(); });
+        // recovers all the rule in this form `body { style code... }`
+        // rules = styleContents.match(/[^{]*\{[\s\S]*?\}/g);
+        rules = styleContents.split('}');
+        // remove empty rules.
+        rules = rules.filter(function(rule) { return rule.trim(); });
+        // at this point we have hopefully an array of rules `body { style code... `
         // eslint-disable-next-line no-loop-func
         rules.forEach(function(rule) {
 
-          var match = rule.match(/([\s\S]*?)\s*\{([^}]*)\}/),
-              ruleObj = { }, declaration = match[2].trim(),
-              propertyValuePairs = declaration.replace(/;$/, '').split(/\s*;\s*/);
+          var match = rule.split('{'),
+              ruleObj = { }, declaration = match[1].trim(),
+              propertyValuePairs = declaration.split(';').filter(function(pair) { return pair.trim(); });
 
           for (i = 0, len = propertyValuePairs.length; i < len; i++) {
-            var pair = propertyValuePairs[i].split(/\s*:\s*/),
-                property = pair[0],
-                value = pair[1];
+            var pair = propertyValuePairs[i].split(':'),
+                property = pair[0].trim(),
+                value = pair[1].trim();
             ruleObj[property] = value;
           }
-          rule = match[1];
+          rule = match[0].trim();
           rule.split(',').forEach(function(_rule) {
             _rule = _rule.replace(/^svg/i, '').trim();
             if (_rule === '') {