diff --git a/files/en-us/learn/css/building_blocks/selectors/attribute_selectors/index.html b/files/en-us/learn/css/building_blocks/selectors/attribute_selectors/index.html
index 465723f0aeaa90a..7e2d2db25c8584c 100644
--- a/files/en-us/learn/css/building_blocks/selectors/attribute_selectors/index.html
+++ b/files/en-us/learn/css/building_blocks/selectors/attribute_selectors/index.html
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ <h2 id="Substring_matching_selectors">Substring matching selectors</h2>
   <tr>
    <td><code>[<em>attr</em>^=<em>value</em>]</code></td>
    <td><code>li[class^="box-"]</code></td>
-   <td>Matches elements with an <em>attr</em> attribute (whose name is the value in square brackets), whose value begins with <em>value</em>.</td>
+   <td>Matches elements with an <em>attr</em> attribute, whose value begins with <em>value</em>.</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
    <td><code>[<em>attr</em>$=<em>value</em>]</code></td>