diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index 951739210a..e01e1afe95 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -4645,7 +4645,7 @@ HTML
 		if ($group_size) {
 			$current_color = ++$current_color % $num_colors;
 		}
-		print "<tr class=\"$rev_color[$current_color]\">\n";
+		print "<tr id=\"l$lineno\" class=\"$rev_color[$current_color]\">\n";
 		if ($group_size) {
 			print "<td class=\"sha1\"";
 			print " title=\"". esc_html($author) . ", $date\"";
@@ -4667,7 +4667,6 @@ HTML
 		                  hash_base => $parent_commit);
 		print "<td class=\"linenr\">";
 		print $cgi->a({ -href => "$blamed#l$orig_lineno",
-		                -id => "l$lineno",
 		                -class => "linenr" },
 		              esc_html($lineno));
 		print "</td>";