diff --git a/doc-src/HAML_CHANGELOG.md b/doc-src/HAML_CHANGELOG.md
index 742dcb6e..375cb395 100644
--- a/doc-src/HAML_CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/doc-src/HAML_CHANGELOG.md
@@ -23,6 +23,11 @@ and only falls back to `"utf-8"` if this encoding is `"us-ascii"`.
   when running under Rails 3,
   since it defaults to HTML5 as well.
 
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* When generating Haml for something like `<span>foo</span>,`,
+  use `= succeed` rather than `- succeed` (which doesn't work).
+
 ## 3.0.6
 
 [Tagged on GitHub](http://github.com/nex3/haml/commit/3.0.6).
diff --git a/lib/haml/html.rb b/lib/haml/html.rb
index 38f78d5a..10cc15ed 100644
--- a/lib/haml/html.rb
+++ b/lib/haml/html.rb
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ module Haml
                self.previous.content =~ /\A\s*\Z/ && self.previous.previous.nil?)
             nuke_outer_whitespace = true
           else
-            output << "- succeed #{self.next.content.slice!(/\A[^\s]+/).dump} do\n"
+            output << "= succeed #{self.next.content.slice!(/\A[^\s]+/).dump} do\n"
             tabs += 1
             output << tabulate(tabs)
           end
diff --git a/test/haml/html2haml_test.rb b/test/haml/html2haml_test.rb
index 5ac5de64..5e20771c 100755
--- a/test/haml/html2haml_test.rb
+++ b/test/haml/html2haml_test.rb
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ HTML
     assert_equal(<<HAML.rstrip, render(<<HTML))
 #foo
   Batch
-  - succeed "," do
+  = succeed "," do
     %span Foo
   %span Bar
 HAML