diff --git a/tests/tokenizer/tags.mwtest b/tests/tokenizer/tags.mwtest
index 89b2b2e..f75488d 100644
--- a/tests/tokenizer/tags.mwtest
+++ b/tests/tokenizer/tags.mwtest
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ output: [TagOpenOpen(showtag=True), Text(text="ref"), TagAttrStart(pad_first=" "
name: attribute_quoted
label: a tag with a single quoted attribute
-input: ""
-output: [TagOpenOpen(showtag=True), Text(text="ref"), TagAttrStart(pad_first=" ", pad_before_eq="", pad_after_eq=""), Text(text="name"), TagAttrEquals(), TagAttrQuote(), Text(text="foo"), TagCloseOpen(padding=""), TagOpenClose(), Text(text="ref"), TagCloseClose()]
+input: ""
+output: [TagOpenOpen(showtag=True), Text(text="ref"), TagAttrStart(pad_first=" ", pad_before_eq="", pad_after_eq=""), Text(text="name"), TagAttrEquals(), TagAttrQuote(), Text(text="foo bar"), TagCloseOpen(padding=""), TagOpenClose(), Text(text="ref"), TagCloseClose()]
---
@@ -373,3 +373,52 @@ name: incomplete_no_tag_name_open_close
label: incomplete tags: no tag name within brackets; open and close
input: "junk <>>"
output: [Text(text="junk <>>")]
+
+---
+
+name: backslash_premature_before
+label: a backslash before a quote before a space
+input: "blah"
+output: [TagOpenOpen(showtag=True), Text(text="foo"), TagAttrStart(pad_first=" ", pad_before_eq="", pad_after_eq=""), Text(text="attribute"), TagAttrEquals(), TagAttrQuote(), Text(text="this is\\\" quoted"), TagCloseOpen(padding=""), TagOpenClose(), Text(text="foo"), TagCloseClose()]
+
+---
+
+name: backslash_premature_after
+label: a backslash before a quote after a space
+input: "blah"
+output: [TagOpenOpen(showtag=True), Text(text="foo"), TagAttrStart(pad_first=" ", pad_before_eq="", pad_after_eq=""), Text(text="attribute"), TagAttrEquals(), TagAttrQuote(), Text(text="this is \\\"quoted"), TagCloseOpen(padding=""), TagOpenClose(), Text(text="foo"), TagCloseClose()]
+
+---
+
+name: backslash_premature_middle
+label: a backslash before a quote in the middle of a word
+input: "blah"
+output: [TagOpenOpen(showtag=True), Text(text="foo"), TagAttrStart(pad_first=" ", pad_before_eq="", pad_after_eq=""), Text(text="attribute"), TagAttrEquals(), TagAttrQuote(), Text(text="this i\\\"s quoted"), TagCloseOpen(padding=""), TagOpenClose(), Text(text="foo"), TagCloseClose()]
+
+---
+
+name: backslash_adjacent
+label: escaped quotes next to unescaped quotes
+input: "blah"
+output: [TagOpenOpen(showtag=True), Text(text="foo"), TagAttrStart(pad_first=" ", pad_before_eq="", pad_after_eq=""), Text(text="attribute"), TagAttrEquals(), TagAttrQuote(), Text(text="\\\"this is quoted\\\""), TagCloseOpen(padding=""), TagOpenClose(), Text(text="foo"), TagCloseClose()]
+
+---
+
+name: backslash_endquote
+label: backslashes before the end quote, causing the attribute to become unquoted
+input: "blah"
+output: [TagOpenOpen(showtag=True), Text(text="foo"), TagAttrStart(pad_first=" ", pad_before_eq="", pad_after_eq=""), Text(text="attribute"), TagAttrEquals(), Text(text="\"this_is"), TagAttrStart(pad_first=" ", pad_before_eq="", pad_after_eq=""), Text(text="quoted\\\""), TagCloseOpen(padding=""), TagOpenClose(), Text(text="foo"), TagCloseClose()]
+
+---
+
+name: backslash_double
+label: two adjacent backslashes, which do *not* affect the quote
+input: "blah"
+output: [TagOpenOpen(showtag=True), Text(text="foo"), TagAttrStart(pad_first=" ", pad_before_eq="", pad_after_eq=""), Text(text="attribute"), TagAttrEquals(), TagAttrQuote(), Text(text="this is\\\\"), TagAttrStart(pad_first=" ", pad_before_eq="", pad_after_eq=""), Text(text="quoted\""), TagCloseOpen(padding=""), TagOpenClose(), Text(text="foo"), TagCloseClose()]
+
+---
+
+name: backslash_unaffecting
+label: backslashes near quotes, but not immediately adjacent, thus having no effect
+input: "blah"
+output: [TagOpenOpen(showtag=True), Text(text="foo"), TagAttrStart(pad_first=" ", pad_before_eq="", pad_after_eq=""), Text(text="attribute"), TagAttrEquals(), TagAttrQuote(), Text(text="\\quote\\d"), TagAttrStart(pad_first=" ", pad_before_eq="", pad_after_eq=""), Text(text="also"), TagAttrEquals(), Text(text="\"quot\\ed\\\""), TagCloseOpen(padding=""), TagOpenClose(), Text(text="foo"), TagCloseClose()]