diff --git a/src/compile/render-dom/wrappers/Element/Attribute.ts b/src/compile/render-dom/wrappers/Element/Attribute.ts
index 9841f4e85d..5007724f34 100644
--- a/src/compile/render-dom/wrappers/Element/Attribute.ts
+++ b/src/compile/render-dom/wrappers/Element/Attribute.ts
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ export default class AttributeWrapper {
 					: property_name
 						? `${element.var}.${property_name} = ${value};`
 						: is_dataset
-							? `${element.var}.dataset.${camel_case_name} = ${value};`
+							? `${element.var}.dataset.${camel_case_name} = ${value === true ? '""' : value};`
 							: `${method}(${element.var}, "${name}", ${value === true ? '""' : value});`
 			);
 
diff --git a/test/runtime/samples/attribute-dataset-without-value/_config.js b/test/runtime/samples/attribute-dataset-without-value/_config.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..934f44eb06
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/runtime/samples/attribute-dataset-without-value/_config.js
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+export default {
+	html: '<div data-potato=""></div>',
+};
diff --git a/test/runtime/samples/attribute-dataset-without-value/main.svelte b/test/runtime/samples/attribute-dataset-without-value/main.svelte
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ed7d532652
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/runtime/samples/attribute-dataset-without-value/main.svelte
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+<div data-potato></div>