diff --git a/lib/formslib.php b/lib/formslib.php
index f2a7cfd40fd..09962abd54b 100644
--- a/lib/formslib.php
+++ b/lib/formslib.php
@@ -1360,7 +1360,7 @@ class MoodleQuickForm_Renderer extends HTML_QuickForm_Renderer_Tableless{
 
         }
         if ($element->getType() == 'static') {
-            $html = preg_replace('|<label.*?</label>|i', '', $html); //xhtml compliance - no label for static content
+            $html = preg_replace('/(<label.*?>)|(<\/label>)/i', '', $html); //xhtml compliance - no label for static content
         }
         $this->_templates[$element->getName()] = $html;
         if (!is_null($element->getAttribute('id'))) {