diff --git a/src/js/svgcanvas.js b/src/js/svgcanvas.js
index 74ea936..a5b0e75 100644
--- a/src/js/svgcanvas.js
+++ b/src/js/svgcanvas.js
@@ -6008,6 +6008,8 @@ this.importSvgString = function(xmlString) {
 
     this.prepareSvg(newDoc);
 
+    newDoc = this.styleToAttr(newDoc);
+
     // import new svg document into our document
     var svg = svgdoc.adoptNode(newDoc.documentElement);