diff --git a/tpl/strings/truncate.go b/tpl/strings/truncate.go
index e8da7b84b50..efa91061821 100644
--- a/tpl/strings/truncate.go
+++ b/tpl/strings/truncate.go
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import (
 	"html"
 	"html/template"
 	"regexp"
+	"strings"
 	"unicode"
 	"unicode/utf8"
 
@@ -92,12 +93,12 @@ func (ns *Namespace) Truncate(s any, options ...any) (template.HTML, error) {
 		}
 
 		if isHTML {
-			// Make sure we keep tag of HTML tags
+			// Make sure we keep tagname of HTML tags
 			slice := text[i:]
 			m := tagRE.FindStringSubmatchIndex(slice)
 			if len(m) > 0 && m[0] == 0 {
 				nextTag = i + m[1]
-				tagname := slice[m[4]:m[5]]
+				tagname := strings.Fields(slice[m[4]:m[5]])[0]
 				lastWordIndex = lastNonSpace
 				_, singlet := htmlSinglets[tagname]
 				if !singlet && m[6] == -1 {
diff --git a/tpl/strings/truncate_test.go b/tpl/strings/truncate_test.go
index 62125e1b4e7..e2339aa2739 100644
--- a/tpl/strings/truncate_test.go
+++ b/tpl/strings/truncate_test.go
@@ -47,6 +47,23 @@ func TestTruncate(t *testing.T) {
 		{3, template.HTML(strings.Repeat("<p>P</p>", 20)), nil, template.HTML("<p>P</p><p>P</p><p>P …</p>"), false},
 		{18, template.HTML("<p>test <b>hello</b> test something</p>"), nil, template.HTML("<p>test <b>hello</b> test …</p>"), false},
 		{4, template.HTML("<p>a<b><i>b</b>c d e</p>"), nil, template.HTML("<p>a<b><i>b</b>c …</p>"), false},
+		{
+			42,
+			template.HTML(`With strangely formatted
+							<a
+							href="#"
+								target="_blank"
+							>HTML</a
+							>
+							inside.`),
+			nil,
+			template.HTML(`With strangely formatted
+							<a
+							href="#"
+								target="_blank"
+							>HTML …</a>`),
+			false,
+		},
 		{10, nil, nil, template.HTML(""), true},
 		{nil, nil, nil, template.HTML(""), true},
 	}