diff --git a/html/semantics/forms/the-select-element/customizable-select/selectedcontent-mutations.html b/html/semantics/forms/the-select-element/customizable-select/selectedcontent-mutations.html
index e4e3e994d91658..ff1b6a1b2b2f33 100644
--- a/html/semantics/forms/the-select-element/customizable-select/selectedcontent-mutations.html
+++ b/html/semantics/forms/the-select-element/customizable-select/selectedcontent-mutations.html
@@ -326,9 +326,7 @@
       "Type: childList | Target: select | Added: [#text: \"\"] | After: button",
       "Type: childList | Target: select | Added: [option] | After: #text: \"\"",
       "Type: childList | Target: selectedcontent | Removed: [#text: \"outer1\", selectedcontent, #text: \"\"]",
-      "Type: childList | Target: selectedcontent | Removed: [#text: \"inner1\"]",
       "Type: childList | Target: selectedcontent | Removed: [#text: \"outer2\", selectedcontent, #text: \"\"]",
-      "Type: childList | Target: selectedcontent | Removed: [#text: \"inner2\"]",
       "Type: childList | Target: option | Added: [#text: \"option\"]",
       "Type: childList | Target: selectedcontent | Added: [#text: \"option\"]",
       "Type: childList | Target: selectedcontent | Added: [#text: \"option\"]",
diff --git a/html/semantics/forms/the-select-element/customizable-select/selectedcontent-nested.html b/html/semantics/forms/the-select-element/customizable-select/selectedcontent-nested.html
index fd2df7a96d8dfb..31a364ae278136 100644
--- a/html/semantics/forms/the-select-element/customizable-select/selectedcontent-nested.html
+++ b/html/semantics/forms/the-select-element/customizable-select/selectedcontent-nested.html
@@ -5,9 +5,7 @@
 <script src="/resources/testharnessreport.js"></script>
 
 <select>
-  <button>
-    <selectedcontent id=main></selectedcontent>
-  </button>
+  <button></button>
   <option>one</option>
   <option>two</option>
 </select>
@@ -15,7 +13,6 @@
 <script>
 test(() => {
   const select = document.querySelector('select');
-  const mainSelectedcontent = document.querySelector('selectedcontent');
   const button = document.querySelector('button');
 
   const parentSelectedcontent = document.createElement('selectedcontent');
@@ -25,7 +22,13 @@
   childSelectedcontent.id = 'child';
   childSelectedcontent.textContent = 'child';
 
+  // Appending the disconnected childSelectedcontent to the disconnected
+  // parentSelectedcontent does not trigger any DOM changes.
   parentSelectedcontent.appendChild(childSelectedcontent);
+  // Appending the pair of nested selectedcontent elements triggers cloning
+  // for each of them. The child one is not updated because its post-insertion
+  // steps look for an ancestor select element, but the post-insertion steps of
+  // the parent one already removed it from the select element.
   button.appendChild(parentSelectedcontent);
 
   assert_equals(parentSelectedcontent.innerHTML, 'one',
@@ -35,12 +38,19 @@
   assert_equals(childSelectedcontent.parentNode, null,
     'child selectedcontent should get disconnected after inserting.');
 
+  // Appending childSelectedcontent to the connected parentSelectedcontent does
+  // not trigger any DOM changes because childSelectedcontent is marked as
+  // disabled for having an ancestor selectedcontent element.
   parentSelectedcontent.appendChild(childSelectedcontent);
+  // Assigning to select.value triggers an update for descendant selectedcontent
+  // elements. The child one is not updated because we check whether selectedcontent
+  // elements are disabled when building the list of selectedcontent elements to update.
   select.value = 'two';
+
   assert_equals(parentSelectedcontent.innerHTML, 'two',
     'parent selectedcontent should get updated when selected option is changed.');
-  assert_equals(childSelectedcontent.innerHTML, 'two',
-    'child selectedcontent should get updated when selected option is changed.');
+  assert_equals(childSelectedcontent.innerHTML, 'child',
+    'child selectedcontent should not get updated when selected option is changed.');
   assert_equals(childSelectedcontent.parentNode, null,
     'child selectedcontent should get disconnected when selected option is changed.');
 }, 'Modification behavior when nesting selectedcontent elements.');