diff --git a/src/librustdoc/html/render.rs b/src/librustdoc/html/render.rs
index efb59c22012bc..3555e2e7498b8 100644
--- a/src/librustdoc/html/render.rs
+++ b/src/librustdoc/html/render.rs
@@ -3804,7 +3804,7 @@ fn render_attributes(w: &mut dyn fmt::Write, it: &clean::Item, top: bool) -> fmt
         }
     }
     if attrs.len() > 0 {
-        write!(w, "<div class=\"docblock attributes{}\">{}</div>",
+        write!(w, "<span class=\"docblock attributes{}\">{}</span>",
                if top { " top-attr" } else { "" }, &attrs)?;
     }
     Ok(())
diff --git a/src/test/rustdoc/trait-attributes.rs b/src/test/rustdoc/trait-attributes.rs
index 971e6b554cca7..a6ee046edec8b 100644
--- a/src/test/rustdoc/trait-attributes.rs
+++ b/src/test/rustdoc/trait-attributes.rs
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 // ignore-tidy-linelength
 
 pub trait Foo {
-    // @has foo/trait.Foo.html '//h3[@id="tymethod.foo"]//div[@class="docblock attributes"]' '#[must_use]'
+    // @has foo/trait.Foo.html '//h3[@id="tymethod.foo"]//span[@class="docblock attributes"]' '#[must_use]'
     #[must_use]
     fn foo();
 }
@@ -12,11 +12,11 @@ pub trait Foo {
 pub struct Bar;
 
 impl Bar {
-    // @has foo/struct.Bar.html '//h4[@id="method.bar"]//div[@class="docblock attributes"]' '#[must_use]'
+    // @has foo/struct.Bar.html '//h4[@id="method.bar"]//span[@class="docblock attributes"]' '#[must_use]'
     #[must_use]
     pub fn bar() {}
 
-    // @has foo/struct.Bar.html '//h4[@id="method.bar2"]//div[@class="docblock attributes"]' '#[must_use]'
+    // @has foo/struct.Bar.html '//h4[@id="method.bar2"]//span[@class="docblock attributes"]' '#[must_use]'
     #[must_use]
     pub fn bar2() {}
 }