diff --git a/openslides/motions/static/js/motions/diff.js b/openslides/motions/static/js/motions/diff.js
index 893332cbc..4e436c320 100644
--- a/openslides/motions/static/js/motions/diff.js
+++ b/openslides/motions/static/js/motions/diff.js
@@ -32,6 +32,18 @@ angular.module('OpenSlidesApp.motions.diff', ['OpenSlidesApp.motions.lineNumberi
             return context;
         };
 
+        this._isFirstNonemptyChild = function(node, child) {
+            for (var i = 0; i < node.childNodes.length; i++) {
+                if (node.childNodes[i] === child) {
+                    return true;
+                }
+                if (node.childNodes[i].nodeType !== TEXT_NODE || node.childNodes[i].nodeValue.match(/\S/)) {
+                    return false;
+                }
+            }
+            return false;
+        };
+
         // Adds elements like <OS-LINEBREAK class="os-line-number line-number-23" data-line-number="23"/>
         this._insertInternalLineMarkers = function(fragment) {
             if (fragment.querySelectorAll('OS-LINEBREAK').length > 0) {
@@ -43,7 +55,8 @@ angular.module('OpenSlidesApp.motions.diff', ['OpenSlidesApp.motions.lineNumberi
 
             for (var i = 0; i < lineNumbers.length; i++) {
                 var insertBefore = lineNumbers[i];
-                while (insertBefore.parentNode.nodeType != DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE && insertBefore.parentNode.childNodes[0] == insertBefore) {
+                while (insertBefore.parentNode.nodeType !== DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE &&
+                       this._isFirstNonemptyChild(insertBefore.parentNode, insertBefore)) {
                     insertBefore = insertBefore.parentNode;
                 }
                 lineMarker = document.createElement('OS-LINEBREAK');
@@ -384,10 +397,10 @@ angular.module('OpenSlidesApp.motions.diff', ['OpenSlidesApp.motions.lineNumberi
 
             var found = false;
             for (var i = 0; i < fromChildTraceRel.length && !found; i++) {
-                if (fromChildTraceRel[i].nodeName == 'OS-LINEBREAK') {
+                if (fromChildTraceRel[i].nodeName === 'OS-LINEBREAK') {
                     found = true;
                 } else {
-                    if (fromChildTraceRel[i].nodeName == 'OL') {
+                    if (fromChildTraceRel[i].nodeName === 'OL') {
                         fakeOl = fromChildTraceRel[i].cloneNode(false);
                         fakeOl.setAttribute('start', this._isWithinNthLIOfOL(fromChildTraceRel[i], fromLineNode));
                         innerContextStart += this._serializeTag(fakeOl);
@@ -398,7 +411,7 @@ angular.module('OpenSlidesApp.motions.diff', ['OpenSlidesApp.motions.lineNumberi
             }
             found = false;
             for (i = 0; i < toChildTraceRel.length && !found; i++) {
-                if (toChildTraceRel[i].nodeName == 'OS-LINEBREAK') {
+                if (toChildTraceRel[i].nodeName === 'OS-LINEBREAK') {
                     found = true;
                 } else {
                     innerContextEnd = '</' + toChildTraceRel[i].nodeName + '>' + innerContextEnd;
@@ -407,11 +420,11 @@ angular.module('OpenSlidesApp.motions.diff', ['OpenSlidesApp.motions.lineNumberi
 
             found = false;
             for (i = 0; i < ancestor.childNodes.length; i++) {
-                if (ancestor.childNodes[i] == fromChildTraceRel[0]) {
+                if (ancestor.childNodes[i] === fromChildTraceRel[0]) {
                     found = true;
                     fromChildTraceRel.shift();
                     htmlOut += this._serializePartialDomFromChild(ancestor.childNodes[i], fromChildTraceRel, true);
-                } else if (ancestor.childNodes[i] == toChildTraceRel[0]) {
+                } else if (ancestor.childNodes[i] === toChildTraceRel[0]) {
                     found = false;
                     toChildTraceRel.shift();
                     htmlOut += this._serializePartialDomToChild(ancestor.childNodes[i], toChildTraceRel, true);
@@ -422,7 +435,7 @@ angular.module('OpenSlidesApp.motions.diff', ['OpenSlidesApp.motions.lineNumberi
 
             currNode = ancestor;
             while (currNode.parentNode) {
-                if (currNode.nodeName == 'OL') {
+                if (currNode.nodeName === 'OL') {
                     fakeOl = currNode.cloneNode(false);
                     fakeOl.setAttribute('start', this._isWithinNthLIOfOL(currNode, fromLineNode));
                     outerContextStart = this._serializeTag(fakeOl) + outerContextStart;
diff --git a/tests/karma/motions/diff.service.test.js b/tests/karma/motions/diff.service.test.js
index 4ebcc68a2..4fadbc178 100644
--- a/tests/karma/motions/diff.service.test.js
+++ b/tests/karma/motions/diff.service.test.js
@@ -144,6 +144,14 @@ describe('linenumbering', function () {
       expect(diff.followingHtmlStartSnippet).toBe('<UL class="ul-class"><LI class="li-class"><UL>');
     });
 
+    it('extracts a single line right before a UL/LI', function () {
+      // Test case for https://github.com/OpenSlides/OpenSlides/issues/3226
+      var html = "<p>A line</p><p>Another line</p>\n<ul>\t<li>A list item</li>\t<li>Yet another item</li></ul>";
+      html = lineNumberingService.insertLineNumbers(html, 80);
+      var diff = diffService.extractRangeByLineNumbers(html, 2, 3, true);
+      expect(diff.html).toBe("<P>Another line</P>\n");
+    });
+
     it('extracts lines from a more complex example', function () {
       var diff = diffService.extractRangeByLineNumbers(baseHtml2, 6, 11);
 
@@ -172,7 +180,7 @@ describe('linenumbering', function () {
     });
 
     it('preserves the numbering of OLs (1)', function () {
-      var diff = diffService.extractRangeByLineNumbers(baseHtml3, 5, 7, true);
+      var diff = diffService.extractRangeByLineNumbers(baseHtml3, 5, 7);
 
       expect(diff.html).toBe('<LI>Line 3.3</LI></OL></LI><LI> Line 4</LI></OL>');
       expect(diff.ancestor.nodeName).toBe('#document-fragment');
@@ -182,7 +190,7 @@ describe('linenumbering', function () {
     });
 
     it('preserves the numbering of OLs (2)', function () {
-      var diff = diffService.extractRangeByLineNumbers(baseHtml3, 3, 5, true);
+      var diff = diffService.extractRangeByLineNumbers(baseHtml3, 3, 5);
 
       expect(diff.html).toBe('<LI><OL><LI>Line 3.1</LI><LI>Line 3.2</LI>');
       expect(diff.ancestor.nodeName).toBe('OL');
@@ -192,7 +200,7 @@ describe('linenumbering', function () {
 
     it('escapes text resembling HTML-Tags', function () {
         var inHtml = '<h2>' + noMarkup(1) + 'Looks like a &lt;p&gt; tag &lt;/p&gt;</h2><p>' + noMarkup(2) + 'Another line</p>';
-        var diff = diffService.extractRangeByLineNumbers(inHtml, 1, 2, true);
+        var diff = diffService.extractRangeByLineNumbers(inHtml, 1, 2);
         expect(diff.html).toBe('<H2>Looks like a &lt;p&gt; tag &lt;/p&gt;</H2>');
     });
   });