diff --git a/src/librustdoc/html/render/mod.rs b/src/librustdoc/html/render/mod.rs
index 93b33b0d609..42d818e20a8 100644
--- a/src/librustdoc/html/render/mod.rs
+++ b/src/librustdoc/html/render/mod.rs
@@ -1002,7 +1002,12 @@ fn attributes(it: &clean::Item) -> Vec<String> {
         .iter()
         .filter_map(|attr| {
             if ALLOWED_ATTRIBUTES.contains(&attr.name_or_empty()) {
-                Some(pprust::attribute_to_string(attr).replace('\n', "").replace("  ", " "))
+                Some(
+                    pprust::attribute_to_string(attr)
+                        .replace("\\\n", "")
+                        .replace('\n', "")
+                        .replace("  ", " "),
+                )
             } else {
                 None
             }