diff --git a/wp-includes/formatting.php b/wp-includes/formatting.php
index 41fd3b92de..0f5cc74aba 100644
--- a/wp-includes/formatting.php
+++ b/wp-includes/formatting.php
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ function wpautop($pee, $br = 1) {
 		$pee = str_replace('<WPPreserveNewline />', "\n", $pee);
 	}
 	$pee = preg_replace('!(</?(?:table|thead|tfoot|caption|tbody|tr|td|th|div|dl|dd|dt|ul|ol|li|pre|select|form|blockquote|address|math|p|h[1-6])[^>]*>)\s*<br />!', "$1", $pee);
-	$pee = preg_replace('!<br />(\s*</?(?:p|li|div|dl|dd|dt|th|pre|td|ul|ol)>)!', '$1', $pee);
+	$pee = preg_replace('!<br />(\s*</?(?:p|li|div|dl|dd|dt|th|pre|td|ul|ol)[^>]*>)!', '$1', $pee);
 	$pee = preg_replace('!(<pre.*?>)(.*?)</pre>!ise', " stripslashes('$1') .  stripslashes(clean_pre('$2'))  . '</pre>' ", $pee);
 
 	return $pee;