diff --git a/lib/Cake/View/Helper/HtmlHelper.php b/lib/Cake/View/Helper/HtmlHelper.php
index 2a3e02e55ff..ae5741136ef 100644
--- a/lib/Cake/View/Helper/HtmlHelper.php
+++ b/lib/Cake/View/Helper/HtmlHelper.php
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ class HtmlHelper extends AppHelper {
 		'submit' => '<input%s/>',
 		'submitimage' => '<input type="image" src="%s"%s/>',
 		'button' => '<button%s>%s</button>',
-		'image' => '<img src="%s" %s/>',
+		'image' => '<img src="%s"%s/>',
 		'tableheader' => '<th%s>%s</th>',
 		'tableheaderrow' => '<tr%s>%s</tr>',
 		'tablecell' => '<td%s>%s</td>',
@@ -828,7 +828,7 @@ public function image($path, $options = array()) {
 			unset($options['url']);
 		}
 
-		$image = sprintf($this->_tags['image'], $path, $this->_parseAttributes($options, null, '', ' '));
+		$image = sprintf($this->_tags['image'], $path, $this->_parseAttributes($options, null, ' ', ' '));
 
 		if ($url) {
 			return sprintf($this->_tags['link'], $this->url($url), null, $image);