diff --git a/jetty-home/src/main/resources/modules/demo.d/root/index.html b/jetty-home/src/main/resources/modules/demo.d/root/index.html
index 4c87971b306c..5d870e542ec1 100644
--- a/jetty-home/src/main/resources/modules/demo.d/root/index.html
+++ b/jetty-home/src/main/resources/modules/demo.d/root/index.html
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<html xmlns=\ "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\" xml:lang=\"en\">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en">
 <head>
 <META http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">
 <META http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache,no-store">
