diff --git a/phpBB/includes/functions_posting.php b/phpBB/includes/functions_posting.php
index 325c796b77..32b776fbcf 100644
--- a/phpBB/includes/functions_posting.php
+++ b/phpBB/includes/functions_posting.php
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ class parse_message
 			do
 			{
 				$match[] = "#(?<=.\W|\W.|^\W)" . preg_quote($row['code'], '#') . "(?=.\W|\W.|\W$)#";
-				$replace[] = '<!-- s' . $row['code'] . ' --><img src="{SMILE_PATH}/' . $row['smile_url'] . '" alt="' . $row['smile_url'] . '" border="0" alt="' . $row['emoticon'] . '" title="' . $row['emoticon'] . '" /><!-- s' . $row['code'] . ' -->';
+				$replace[] = '<!-- s' . $row['code'] . ' --><img src="{SMILE_PATH}/' . $row['smile_url'] . '" border="0" alt="' . $row['emoticon'] . '" title="' . $row['emoticon'] . '" /><!-- s' . $row['code'] . ' -->';
 			}
 			while ($row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result));