diff --git a/frappe/public/js/frappe/form/controls/base_control.js b/frappe/public/js/frappe/form/controls/base_control.js
index d6c268a28a..6a14637f33 100644
--- a/frappe/public/js/frappe/form/controls/base_control.js
+++ b/frappe/public/js/frappe/form/controls/base_control.js
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ frappe.ui.form.Control = class BaseControl {
 				if (!this.doc.__islocal) {
 					new frappe.views.TranslationManager({
 						'df': this.df,
-						'source_text': value,
+						'source_text': this.value,
 						'target_language': this.doc.language,
 						'doc': this.doc
 					});
diff --git a/frappe/translate.py b/frappe/translate.py
index f1dbfdec59..6f3ed81dc2 100644
--- a/frappe/translate.py
+++ b/frappe/translate.py
@@ -821,6 +821,9 @@ def update_translations_for_source(source=None, translation_dict=None):
 
 	translation_dict = json.loads(translation_dict)
 
+	if is_html(source):
+		source = strip_html_tags(source)
+
 	# for existing records
 	translation_records = frappe.db.get_values('Translation', {
 		'source_text': source