diff --git a/playwright/editor.spec.tsx b/playwright/editor.spec.tsx
index 4ce2cbbd..9e4862c2 100644
--- a/playwright/editor.spec.tsx
+++ b/playwright/editor.spec.tsx
@@ -610,6 +610,45 @@ test.describe('Rich text editor', () => {
       })
     })
 
+    test('updates the answer when equation is changed', async ({ page }) => {
+      await page.keyboard.press('1')
+      assertAnswerContent(answer, { answerHtml: getLatexImgTag('1') })
+      await page.keyboard.press('2')
+      assertAnswerContent(answer, { answerHtml: getLatexImgTag('12') })
+
+      await test.step('updates on undo', async () => {
+        await page.keyboard.press('Control+z')
+        assertAnswerContent(answer, { answerHtml: getLatexImgTag('1') })
+      })
+
+      await test.step('updates with long text', async () => {
+        await page.keyboard.type('testing that this works when there is a lot of text as well')
+        assertAnswerContent(answer, {
+          answerHtml: getLatexImgTag(
+            '1testing\\ that\\ this\\ works\\ when\\ there\\ is\\ a\\ lot\\ of\\ text\\ as\\ well',
+          ),
+        })
+        await selectAll(page)
+        await page.keyboard.press('Backspace')
+        assertAnswerContent(answer, { answerHtml: getLatexImgTag('') })
+      })
+
+      await test.step('updates when latex command is inserted', async () => {
+        await inputLatexCommandFromToolbar(page, specialCharacters.sqrt[0])
+        assertAnswerContent(answer, { answerHtml: getLatexImgTag('\\sqrt{ }') })
+        await page.keyboard.type('123')
+        assertAnswerContent(answer, { answerHtml: getLatexImgTag('\\sqrt{123}') })
+      })
+
+      await test.step('updates when re-opnening an equation', async () => {
+        await page.keyboard.press('Escape')
+        assertAnswerContent(answer, { answerHtml: getLatexImgTag('\\sqrt{123}') })
+        await getEditorLocator(page).getByRole('img').first().click()
+        await page.keyboard.type('abc')
+        assertAnswerContent(answer, { answerHtml: getLatexImgTag('\\sqrt{123}abc') })
+      })
+    })
+
     test.describe('when multiple equation editors in answer', () => {
       test.beforeEach(async ({ page }) => {
         await page.keyboard.press('A')
@@ -677,7 +716,7 @@ test.describe('Rich text editor', () => {
       test('after editor with Tab in Latex field', async ({ page }) => {
         await expect(page.getByRole('img').last()).toBeVisible()
         await page.getByRole('img').last().click()
-        // first TAb to focus latex-field
+        // first Tab to focus latex-field
         await page.keyboard.press('Tab')
         await page.keyboard.press('Tab')
         await page.keyboard.type('XX')
diff --git a/src/app/state/index.tsx b/src/app/state/index.tsx
index 64632a50..2ccaa9ac 100644
--- a/src/app/state/index.tsx
+++ b/src/app/state/index.tsx
@@ -169,6 +169,7 @@ export function EditorStateProvider({
 
     function onChange(latex: string) {
       equationEditorHistory.write(latex)
+      onAnswerChange(false, false)
     }
 
     function onEnter(latex: string) {
@@ -276,12 +277,6 @@ export function EditorStateProvider({
    * @param shouldUpdateHistoryImmediately - Whether to update the answer history immediately, without debouncing (defaults to false)
    */
   function onAnswerChange(shouldUpdateHistory: boolean = true, shouldUpdateHistoryImmediately: boolean = false) {
-    /** This 0ms timeout is crucial - it essentially moves the callback into the next event loop,
-     * after pending DOM changes have been made in the current loop (in practice,
-     * this is needed because closing a math editor changes the HTML of the answer,
-     * but doesn't trigger the text area's onInput event. With this hack we can get the answer HTML with
-     * the changes already included.)
-     */
     const fn = () => {
       const content = mainTextAreaRef.current?.innerHTML
       if (content !== undefined) {
@@ -297,6 +292,12 @@ export function EditorStateProvider({
         }
       }
     }
+    /** This 0ms timeout is crucial - it essentially moves the callback into the next event loop,
+     * after pending DOM changes have been made in the current loop (in practice,
+     * this is needed because closing a math editor changes the HTML of the answer,
+     * but doesn't trigger the text area's onInput event. With this hack we can get the answer HTML with
+     * the changes already included.)
+     */
     setTimeout(fn, 0)
   }
 
diff --git a/src/app/utility.ts b/src/app/utility.ts
index efffe3cb..898da50a 100644
--- a/src/app/utility.ts
+++ b/src/app/utility.ts
@@ -89,9 +89,8 @@ export const getAnswer = (html: string) => {
     transformTags: {
       img: (tagName: string, attribs: Attributes) =>
         attribs.src ? { tagName, attribs } : { tagName: '', attribs: {} },
-      span: (tagName: string, attribs: Attributes) =>
-        attribs.class !== MATH_EDITOR_CLASS ? { tagName, attribs } : { tagName: '', attribs: {} },
     },
+    exclusiveFilter: (frame) => frame.tag === 'span' && frame.attribs?.class === MATH_EDITOR_CLASS,
   })
   const answer = new DOMParser().parseFromString(answerHtml, 'text/html').body
   const answerText = Array.from(answer.childNodes)