diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index f2600d93c..226d68a2b 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@
   },
   "dependencies": {
     "d3": "^4.13.0",
-    "d3-textwrap": "^2.0.2",
     "dagre-d3-renderer": "^0.5.1",
     "dagre-layout": "^0.8.6",
     "graphlibrary": "^2.2.0",
diff --git a/src/diagrams/sequenceDiagram/svgDraw.js b/src/diagrams/sequenceDiagram/svgDraw.js
index 5e6e3ab71..17b9f8273 100644
--- a/src/diagrams/sequenceDiagram/svgDraw.js
+++ b/src/diagrams/sequenceDiagram/svgDraw.js
@@ -33,14 +33,6 @@ export const drawText = function (elem, textData, width) {
   span.attr('x', textData.x + textData.textMargin * 2)
   span.attr('fill', textData.fill)
   span.text(nText)
-  if (typeof textElem.textwrap !== 'undefined') {
-    textElem.textwrap({
-      x: textData.x, // bounding box is 300 pixels from the left
-      y: textData.y, // bounding box is 400 pixels from the top
-      width: width, // bounding box is 500 pixels across
-      height: 1800 // bounding box is 600 pixels tall
-    }, textData.textMargin)
-  }
 
   return textElem
 }
@@ -61,6 +53,7 @@ export const drawLabel = function (elem, txtObject) {
   txtObject.x = txtObject.x + 0.5 * txtObject.labelMargin
   drawText(elem, txtObject)
 }
+
 let actorCnt = -1
 /**
  * Draws an actor in the diagram with the attaced line
@@ -265,22 +258,8 @@ const _drawTextCandidateFunc = (function () {
       .style('text-anchor', 'middle')
     text.append('tspan')
       .attr('x', x + width / 2).attr('dy', '0')
-      .text(content)
+      .text(content) // todo: fix position y
 
-    if (typeof (text.textwrap) !== 'undefined') {
-      text.textwrap({ // d3textwrap
-        x: x + width / 2, y: y, width: width, height: height
-      }, 0)
-      // vertical aligment after d3textwrap expans tspan to multiple tspans
-      let tspans = text.selectAll('tspan')
-      if (tspans.length > 0 && tspans[0].length > 0) {
-        tspans = tspans[0]
-        // set y of <text> to the mid y of the first line
-        text.attr('y', y + (height / 2.0 - text[0][0].getBBox().height * (1 - 1.0 / tspans.length) / 2.0))
-          .attr('dominant-baseline', 'central')
-          .attr('alignment-baseline', 'central')
-      }
-    }
     _setTextAttrs(text, textAttrs)
   }
 
diff --git a/todo.md b/todo.md
index 0dd040568..ab7de829c 100644
--- a/todo.md
+++ b/todo.md
@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@
 - Setup code coverage
 - Create a desktop client
 - Fix sequence diagram node label position issue
-    - caused by d3-textwrap?
-        - remove textwrap feature?
 - Fix flowchart interpolate/curve issue
     - not a common feature so dist/index.html cannot reproduce this issue
 - Support customization of gantt diagram xAxis format
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 46c3fb217..253b18325 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -2411,7 +2411,7 @@ d3-scale@1.0.7:
     d3-time "1"
     d3-time-format "2"
 
-d3-selection@1, d3-selection@1.3.0, d3-selection@^1.0.2, d3-selection@^1.1.0:
+d3-selection@1, d3-selection@1.3.0, d3-selection@^1.1.0:
   version "1.3.0"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/d3-selection/-/d3-selection-1.3.0.tgz#d53772382d3dc4f7507bfb28bcd2d6aed2a0ad6d"
 
@@ -2421,12 +2421,6 @@ d3-shape@1.2.0:
   dependencies:
     d3-path "1"
 
-d3-textwrap@^2.0.2:
-  version "2.0.2"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/d3-textwrap/-/d3-textwrap-2.0.2.tgz#7026dad5fd109bb280bfa3b5af2a8f6981290034"
-  dependencies:
-    d3-selection "^1.0.2"
-
 d3-time-format@2, d3-time-format@2.1.1:
   version "2.1.1"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/d3-time-format/-/d3-time-format-2.1.1.tgz#85b7cdfbc9ffca187f14d3c456ffda268081bb31"