diff --git a/lms/static/js/discovery/views/filter_label.js b/lms/static/js/discovery/views/filter_label.js
index 9100eb9b6b..c594264f76 100644
--- a/lms/static/js/discovery/views/filter_label.js
+++ b/lms/static/js/discovery/views/filter_label.js
@@ -3,8 +3,9 @@
         'jquery',
         'underscore',
         'backbone',
-        'gettext'
-    ], function($, _, Backbone, gettext) {
+        'gettext',
+        'edx-ui-toolkit/js/utils/html-utils'
+    ], function($, _, Backbone, gettext, HtmlUtils) {
         'use strict';
 
         return Backbone.View.extend({
@@ -14,7 +15,7 @@
             className: 'active-filter',
 
             initialize: function() {
-                this.tpl = _.template($('#filter-tpl').html());
+                this.tpl = HtmlUtils.template($('#filter-tpl').html());
                 this.listenTo(this.model, 'remove', this.remove);
                 this.listenTo(this.model, 'change', this.render);
             },
@@ -23,7 +24,10 @@
                 var data = _.clone(this.model.attributes);
                 data.name = data.name || data.query;
                 this.className = data.type;
-                this.$el.html(this.tpl(data));
+                HtmlUtils.setHtml(
+                    this.$el,
+                    this.tpl(data)
+                );
                 return this;
             }