diff --git a/lib/web/mage/adminhtml/wysiwyg/tiny_mce/setup.js b/lib/web/mage/adminhtml/wysiwyg/tiny_mce/setup.js
index 306c9557e6456584bba2ab40f7446d76f2e3ee42..057f492509192292022cf7290f6d18dc872c62b1 100755
--- a/lib/web/mage/adminhtml/wysiwyg/tiny_mce/setup.js
+++ b/lib/web/mage/adminhtml/wysiwyg/tiny_mce/setup.js
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ define([
 
         encodeDirectives: function(content) {
             // collect all HTML tags with attributes that contain directives
-            return content.gsub(/\<([a-z0-9\-\_]+.+?)([a-z0-9\-\_]+=".*?\{\{.+?\}\}.*?".*?)>/i, function(match) {
+            return content.gsub(/<([a-z0-9\-\_]+.+?)([a-z0-9\-\_]+=".*?\{\{.+?\}\}.*?".*?)>/i, function(match) {
                 var attributesString = match[2];
 
                 // process tag attributes string