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The HTML in the task is incorrect. That's the reason of the odd thing.

The browser has to fix it automatically. But there may be no text inside the <table>: according to the spec only table-specific tags are allowed. So the browser adds "aaa" before the <table>.

Now it's obvious that when we remove the table, it remains.

The question can be easily answered by exploring the DOM using the browser tools. It shows "aaa" before the <table>.

The HTML standard specifies in detail how to process bad HTML, and such behavior of the browser is correct.