diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Core/Macros/MacroTagParser.cs b/src/Umbraco.Core/Macros/MacroTagParser.cs
index 0ed7c5bad2..7193bc2ba4 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Core/Macros/MacroTagParser.cs
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Core/Macros/MacroTagParser.cs
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ namespace Umbraco.Core.Macros
 	internal class MacroTagParser
 	{
         private static readonly Regex MacroRteContent = new Regex(@"(<!--\s*?)(<\?UMBRACO_MACRO.*?/>)(\s*?-->)", RegexOptions.Compiled | RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Singleline);
-        private static readonly Regex MacroPersistedFormat = new Regex(@"(<\?UMBRACO_MACRO (?:.+)?macroAlias=[""']([^""\'\n\r]+?)[""'].+?)(?:/>|>.*?</\?UMBRACO_MACRO>)", RegexOptions.Compiled | RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Singleline);
+        private static readonly Regex MacroPersistedFormat = new Regex(@"(<\?UMBRACO_MACRO (?:.+?)?macroAlias=[""']([^""\'\n\r]+?)[""'].+?)(?:/>|>.*?</\?UMBRACO_MACRO>)", RegexOptions.Compiled | RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Singleline);
 
 	    /// <summary>
 	    /// This formats the persisted string to something useful for the rte so that the macro renders properly since we 
diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/src/common/services/macro.service.js b/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/src/common/services/macro.service.js
index 172c0836e7..f0f1649bbe 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/src/common/services/macro.service.js
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/src/common/services/macro.service.js
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ function macroService() {
             
             //This regex will match an alias of anything except characters that are quotes or new lines (for legacy reasons, when new macros are created
             // their aliases are cleaned an invalid chars are stripped)
-            var expression = /(<\?UMBRACO_MACRO (?:.+)?macroAlias=["']([^\"\'\n\r]+?)["'][\s\S]+?)(\/>|>.*?<\/\?UMBRACO_MACRO>)/i;
+            var expression = /(<\?UMBRACO_MACRO (?:.+?)?macroAlias=["']([^\"\'\n\r]+?)["'][\s\S]+?)(\/>|>.*?<\/\?UMBRACO_MACRO>)/i;
             var match = expression.exec(syntax);
             if (!match || match.length < 3) {
                 return null;