diff --git a/system/helpers/html_helper.php b/system/helpers/html_helper.php
index 1c8603d..3010c6f 100644
--- a/system/helpers/html_helper.php
+++ b/system/helpers/html_helper.php
@@ -216,16 +216,16 @@
 
 				if ($index_page === TRUE)
 				{
-					$img .= ' src="'.$CI->config->site_url($v).'" ';
+					$img .= ' src="'.$CI->config->site_url($v).'"';
 				}
 				else
 				{
-					$img .= ' src="'.$CI->config->slash_item('base_url').$v.'" ';
+					$img .= ' src="'.$CI->config->slash_item('base_url').$v.'"';
 				}
 			}
 			else
 			{
-				$img .= " $k=\"$v\" ";
+				$img .= " $k=\"$v\"";
 			}
 		}
 
diff --git a/user_guide/changelog.html b/user_guide/changelog.html
index 67fcb7e..4b6078a 100644
--- a/user_guide/changelog.html
+++ b/user_guide/changelog.html
@@ -190,6 +190,7 @@
 	<li>Fixed a bug in the URL Helper where prep_url() could cause a PHP error on PHP versions &lt; 5.1.2.</li>
 	<li>Added a log message in core/output if the cache directory config value was not found.</li>
 	<li>Fixed a bug where multiple libraries could not be loaded by passing an array to load-&gt;library()</li>
+	<li>Fixed a bug in the html helper where too much white space was rendered between the src and alt tags in the img() function.</li>
 </ul>
 
 <h2>Version 1.7.2</h2>