diff --git a/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/includes/doc-head-open.inc b/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/includes/doc-head-open.inc
index ea87535446..b8aa2ad246 100644
--- a/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/includes/doc-head-open.inc
+++ b/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/includes/doc-head-open.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
-<html lang="[% lang %]" xml:lang="[% lang %]" [% IF ( bidi ) %]dir="[% bidi %]"[% END %] xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+[% IF ( bidi ) %]<html lang="[% lang %]" xml:lang="[% lang %]" dir="[% bidi %]" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">[% ELSE %]<html lang="[% lang %]" xml:lang="[% lang %]" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">[% END %]
 <head>