diff --git a/htdocs/core/lib/functions.lib.php b/htdocs/core/lib/functions.lib.php
index 142d91565d6..d2e919e49fe 100644
--- a/htdocs/core/lib/functions.lib.php
+++ b/htdocs/core/lib/functions.lib.php
@@ -5786,7 +5786,7 @@ function dol_string_nohtmltag($stringtoclean, $removelinefeed = 1, $pagecodeto =
 		$temp = preg_replace($pattern, "", $temp); // pass 1 - $temp after pass 1: <a href="/myurl" title="A title">0000-021
 		$temp = preg_replace($pattern, "", $temp); // pass 2 - $temp after pass 2: 0000-021
 		// removed '<' into non closing html tags like '<a'
-		$temp = preg_replace('/<([^\s<]+)/', '\1', $temp);
+		$temp = preg_replace('/<(\w+)/', '\1', $temp);
 	}
 
 	$temp = dol_html_entity_decode($temp, ENT_COMPAT, $pagecodeto);