diff --git a/lib/Minify/HTML.php b/lib/Minify/HTML.php
index f6ba63d..5089833 100644
--- a/lib/Minify/HTML.php
+++ b/lib/Minify/HTML.php
@@ -77,9 +77,6 @@ class Minify_HTML {
             .'|ol|opt(?:group|ion)|p|param|t(?:able|body|head|d|h||r|foot|itle)'
             .'|ul)\\b[^>]*>)/i', '$1', $html);
         
-        // line break within some tags to limit line lengths
-        $html = preg_replace('/(<(?:div|span|a|p|input)) ([^>]+>)/i', "$1\n$2", $html);
-            
         // remove ws outside of all elements
         $html = preg_replace_callback(
             '/>([^<]+)</'
@@ -90,7 +87,10 @@ class Minify_HTML {
         self::_fillPlaceholders($html, self::$_pres, 'PRE');
         self::_fillPlaceholders($html, self::$_tas, 'TEXTAREA');
         self::_fillPlaceholders($html, self::$_scripts, 'SCRIPT');
-        self::_fillPlaceholders($html, self::$_styles, 'STYLE');
+        self::_fillPlaceholders($html, self::$_styles, 'STYLE');
+        
+        // use newlines before 1st attribute in open tags (to limit line lengths)
+        $html = preg_replace('/(<[a-z\\-]+)\\s+([^>]+>)/i', "$1\n$2", $html);
         
         self::$_cssMinifier = self::$_jsMinifier = null;
         return $html;
diff --git a/web/test/_test_files/html/before.min.html b/web/test/_test_files/html/before.min.html
index 4935cd8..d8862c2 100644
--- a/web/test/_test_files/html/before.min.html
+++ b/web/test/_test_files/html/before.min.html
@@ -1,9 +1,21 @@
-<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" ><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /><meta name="author" content="Dave Shea" /><meta name="keywords" content="design, css, cascading, style, sheets, xhtml, graphic design, w3c, web standards, visual, display" /><meta name="description" content="A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design." /><meta name="robots" content="all" /><title>css Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design</title><script type="text/javascript">var is={ie:navigator.appName=='Microsoft Internet Explorer',java:navigator.javaEnabled(),ns:navigator.appName=='Netscape',ua:navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase(),version:parseFloat(navigator.appVersion.substr(21))||parseFloat(navigator.appVersion),win:navigator.platform=='Win32'}
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"><html
+xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" ><head><meta
+http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /><meta
+name="author" content="Dave Shea" /><meta
+name="keywords" content="design, css, cascading, style, sheets, xhtml, graphic design, w3c, web standards, visual, display" /><meta
+name="description" content="A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design." /><meta
+name="robots" content="all" /><title>css Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design</title><script
+type="text/javascript">var is={ie:navigator.appName=='Microsoft Internet Explorer',java:navigator.javaEnabled(),ns:navigator.appName=='Netscape',ua:navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase(),version:parseFloat(navigator.appVersion.substr(21))||parseFloat(navigator.appVersion),win:navigator.platform=='Win32'}
 is.mac=is.ua.indexOf('mac')>=0;if(is.ua.indexOf('opera')>=0){is.ie=is.ns=false;is.opera=true;}
-if(is.ua.indexOf('gecko')>=0){is.ie=is.ns=false;is.gecko=true;}</script><script type="text/javascript">/*<![CDATA[*/var i=0;while(++i<10)
-{}/*]]>*/</script><script type="text/javascript">i=1;</script><script type="text/javascript">/*<![CDATA[*/(i<1);/*]]>*/</script><!--[if IE 6]><style type="text/css">/*<![CDATA[*/
+if(is.ua.indexOf('gecko')>=0){is.ie=is.ns=false;is.gecko=true;}</script><script
+type="text/javascript">/*<![CDATA[*/var i=0;while(++i<10)
+{}/*]]>*/</script><script
+type="text/javascript">i=1;</script><script
+type="text/javascript">/*<![CDATA[*/(i<1);/*]]>*/</script><!--[if IE 6]><style
+type="text/css">/*<![CDATA[*/
 /* copyright: you'll need CDATA for this < & */
-body{background:white}/*]]>*/</style><![endif]--><style type="text/css" title="currentStyle" media="screen">@import "/001/001.css";/*\*/css
+body{background:white}/*]]>*/</style><![endif]--><style
+type="text/css" title="currentStyle" media="screen">@import "/001/001.css";/*\*/css
 hack{}/**//*/*/css
 hack{}/**/css
 hack{display/**/:/**/none;display:none}</style><link
@@ -13,15 +25,19 @@ href="http://www.csszengarden.com/favicon.ico" /><link
 rel="alternate"
 type="application/rss+xml"
 title="RSS"
-href="http://www.csszengarden.com/zengarden.xml" /></head><body id="css-zen-garden"><div
+href="http://www.csszengarden.com/zengarden.xml" /></head><body
+id="css-zen-garden"><div
 id="container"><div
-id="pageHeader"><h1><span>css Zen Garden</span></h1><h2><span>The Beauty of <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</acronym> Design</span></h2></div><pre>
+id="pageHeader"><h1><span>css Zen Garden</span></h1><h2><span>The Beauty of <acronym
+title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</acronym> Design</span></h2></div><pre>
 	White  space  is  important   here!
 		</pre><div
 id="quickSummary"><p
-class="p1"><span>A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</acronym>-based design. Select any style sheet from the list to load it into this page.</span></p><p
+class="p1"><span>A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through <acronym
+title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</acronym>-based design. Select any style sheet from the list to load it into this page.</span></p><p
 class="p2"><span>Download the sample <a
 href="/zengarden-sample.html" title="This page's source HTML code, not to be modified.">html file</a> and <a
-href="/zengarden-sample.css" title="This page's sample CSS, the file you may modify.">css file</a></span></p></div><textarea name="comment" id="comment" rows="6" class="maxwidth" cols="80">66666
+href="/zengarden-sample.css" title="This page's sample CSS, the file you may modify.">css file</a></span></p></div><textarea
+name="comment" id="comment" rows="6" class="maxwidth" cols="80">66666
 
 1234567890</textarea></div></body></html>
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