diff --git a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/webview/ReactWebViewManager.java b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/webview/ReactWebViewManager.java
index 05b6740ad66b..7516b3ab8ae1 100644
--- a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/webview/ReactWebViewManager.java
+++ b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/webview/ReactWebViewManager.java
@@ -453,12 +453,11 @@ public void setSource(WebView view, @Nullable ReadableMap source) {
     if (source != null) {
       if (source.hasKey("html")) {
         String html = source.getString("html");
+        String baseUrl = null;
         if (source.hasKey("baseUrl")) {
-          view.loadDataWithBaseURL(
-              source.getString("baseUrl"), html, HTML_MIME_TYPE, HTML_ENCODING, null);
-        } else {
-          view.loadData(html, HTML_MIME_TYPE, HTML_ENCODING);
+          baseUrl = source.getString("baseUrl");
         }
+        view.loadDataWithBaseURL(baseUrl, html, HTML_MIME_TYPE, HTML_ENCODING, null);
         return;
       }
       if (source.hasKey("uri")) {