diff --git a/lib/javascript-static.js b/lib/javascript-static.js
index b8fc705b3ea..d4f7bdfa22e 100644
--- a/lib/javascript-static.js
+++ b/lib/javascript-static.js
@@ -88,17 +88,17 @@ M.util.CollapsibleRegion = function(Y, id, userpref, strtooltip) {
 
     // Get the caption for the collapsible region
     var caption = this.div.one('#'+id + '_caption');
-    caption.setAttribute('title', strtooltip);
 
     // Create a link
     var a = Y.Node.create('<a href="#"></a>');
-    // Create a local scoped lamba function to move nodes to a new link
-    var movenode = function(node){
-        node.remove();
-        a.append(node);
-    };
-    // Apply the lamba function on each of the captions child nodes
-    caption.get('children').each(movenode, this);
+    a.setAttribute('title', strtooltip);
+
+    // Get all the nodes from caption, remove them and append them to <a>
+    while (caption.hasChildNodes()) {
+        child = caption.get('firstChild');
+        child.remove();
+        a.append(child);
+    }
     caption.append(a);
 
     // Get the height of the div at this point before we shrink it if required