diff --git a/_test/cases/lib/exe/css_css_loadfile.test.php b/_test/cases/lib/exe/css_css_loadfile.test.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a444d008661fb40846d7e2fbf99963eeea2c788d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/_test/cases/lib/exe/css_css_loadfile.test.php
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+<?php
+
+require_once DOKU_INC.'lib/exe/css.php';
+
+class css_css_loadfile_test extends UnitTestCase {
+    public function setUp() {
+        $this->file = tempnam('/tmp', 'css');
+        parent::setUp();
+    }
+
+    private function csstest($input, $output = null, $location = 'http://www.example.com/') {
+        io_saveFile($this->file, $input);
+        $this->assertEqual(css_loadfile($this->file, $location), (is_null($output) ? $input : $output));
+    }
+
+    public function test_url_relative() {
+        $this->csstest('#test { background: url("test/test.png"); }', '#test { background: url("http://www.example.com/test/test.png"); }');
+        $this->csstest('#test { background: url(\'test/test.png\'); }', '#test { background: url(\'http://www.example.com/test/test.png\'); }');
+    }
+
+    public function test_url_absolute() {
+        $this->csstest('#test { background: url("/test/test.png"); }');
+        $this->csstest('#test { background: url(\'/test/test.png\'); }');
+    }
+
+    public function test_url_with_protocol() {
+        $this->csstest('#test { background: url("http://www.test.com/test/test.png"); }');
+        $this->csstest('#test { background: url("https://www.test.com/test/test.png"); }');
+        $this->csstest('#test { background: url(\'http://www.test.com/test/test.png\'); }');
+        $this->csstest('#test { background: url(\'https://www.test.com/test/test.png\'); }');
+    }
+
+    public function test_import_relative() {
+        $this->csstest('@import "test/test.png";', '@import "http://www.example.com/test/test.png";');
+        $this->csstest('@import \'test/test.png\';', '@import \'http://www.example.com/test/test.png\';');
+    }
+
+    public function test_import_absolute() {
+        $this->csstest('@import "/test/test.png";');
+        $this->csstest('@import \'/test/test.png\';');
+    }
+
+    public function test_import_with_protocol() {
+        $this->csstest('@import "http://www.test.com/test/test.png";');
+        $this->csstest('@import "https://www.test.com/test/test.png";');
+        $this->csstest('@import \'http://www.test.com/test/test.png\';');
+        $this->csstest('@import \'https://www.test.com/test/test.png\';');
+    }
+
+    public function tearDown() {
+        unlink($this->file);
+        unset($this->file);
+        parent::tearDown();
+    }
+}
+
+//Setup VIM: ex: et ts=4 sw=4 :
diff --git a/lib/exe/css.php b/lib/exe/css.php
index eb2d96513e0be6fcfda8756a84e54c165503a047..4db81de0b4835cddc60c2f8b03c56d4ff96b48eb 100644
--- a/lib/exe/css.php
+++ b/lib/exe/css.php
@@ -267,8 +267,8 @@ function css_loadfile($file,$location=''){
     $css = io_readFile($file);
     if(!$location) return $css;
 
-    $css = preg_replace('#(url\([ \'"]*)((?!/|http://|https://| |\'|"))#','\\1'.$location.'\\3',$css);
-    $css = preg_replace('#(@import\s+[\'"])((?!/|http://|https://))#', '\\1'.$location.'\\2"', $css);
+    $css = preg_replace('#(url\([ \'"]*)(?!/|http://|https://| |\'|")#','\\1'.$location,$css);
+    $css = preg_replace('#(@import\s+[\'"])(?!/|http://|https://)#', '\\1'.$location, $css);
     return $css;
 }