diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index 85bb62f..6294c9f 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,15 @@
 selectolax Changelog
 ====================
 
+Version 0.2.10
+--------------
+
+Released
+
+- Fix root node property (`#32`_ ). The `root` property now points to the html tag.
+
+.. _#32: https://github.com/rushter/selectolax/issues/32
+
 Version 0.2.9
 -------------
 
diff --git a/selectolax/node.pxi b/selectolax/node.pxi
index 6766ca0..c539db6 100644
--- a/selectolax/node.pxi
+++ b/selectolax/node.pxi
@@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ cdef class Node:
     def unwrap_tags(self, list tags):
         """Unwraps specified tags from the HTML tree.
 
-        Works the same as th ``unwrap`` method, but applied to a list of tags.
+        Works the same as the ``unwrap`` method, but applied to a list of tags.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
diff --git a/selectolax/parser.pyx b/selectolax/parser.pyx
index 077fd20..6891703 100644
--- a/selectolax/parser.pyx
+++ b/selectolax/parser.pyx
@@ -156,14 +156,10 @@ cdef class HTMLParser:
     @property
     def root(self):
         """Returns root node."""
-        cdef myhtml_tree_node_t* root
-        root = myhtml_tree_get_document(self.html_tree)
-
-        if root != NULL:
+        if self.html_tree and self.html_tree.node_html:
             node = Node()
-            node._init(root, self)
+            node._init(self.html_tree.node_html, self)
             return node
-
         return None
 
     @property
diff --git a/tests/test_nodes.py b/tests/test_nodes.py
index a21ac57..ef92efe 100644
--- a/tests/test_nodes.py
+++ b/tests/test_nodes.py
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ def test_traverse():
     )
     html_parser = HTMLParser(html)
     actual = [node.tag for node in html_parser.root.traverse()]
-    expected = ['-undef', 'html', 'head', 'body', 'div', 'div', 'div', 'h1', 'div', 'img', 'div']
+    expected = ['html', 'head', 'body', 'div', 'div', 'div', 'h1', 'div', 'img', 'div']
     assert actual == expected
 
 
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ def test_traverse_with_text():
     )
     html_parser = HTMLParser(html)
     actual = [node.tag for node in html_parser.root.traverse(include_text=True)]
-    expected = ['-undef', 'html', 'head', 'body', 'div', 'div', 'div', 'h1', '-text', 'div', '-text', 'img', 'div']
+    expected = ['html', 'head', 'body', 'div', 'div', 'div', 'h1', '-text', 'div', '-text', 'img', 'div']
     assert actual == expected
 
 
diff --git a/tests/test_parser.py b/tests/test_parser.py
index e4868e0..2261af3 100644
--- a/tests/test_parser.py
+++ b/tests/test_parser.py
@@ -49,3 +49,8 @@ def test_nodes():
     html_output = htmlp.html
     assert len(html_output) >= len(html)
     assert SequenceMatcher(None, html, html_output).ratio() > 0.8
+
+
+def test_root_css():
+    tree = HTMLParser('test')
+    assert len(tree.root.css('data')) == 0