diff --git a/src/djlint/rules.yaml b/src/djlint/rules.yaml
index f618a78..f625008 100644
--- a/src/djlint/rules.yaml
+++ b/src/djlint/rules.yaml
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@
     flags: re.DOTALL|re.I
     patterns:
     - <(?:a|div|span|input)\b[^>]*?\s(?:href|data-url|data-src|action)=[\"|'](?!(?:https?://)|javascript:|on\w+:|mailto:|tel:|data:)[\w|/]+
-    - <form\s+?[^>]*?(?:action)=[\"|'](?!(?:https?://)|javascript:|on\w+:|mailto:|tel:)[\w|/]+
+    - <form\b[^>]*?(?:\saction)=[\"|'](?!(?:https?://)|javascript:|on\w+:|mailto:|tel:)[\w|/]+
 - rule:
     name: J018
     message: (Jinja) Internal links should use the {{ url_for() ... }} pattern.
diff --git a/tests/test_linter/test_linter.py b/tests/test_linter/test_linter.py
index 9505691..7901ef7 100644
--- a/tests/test_linter/test_linter.py
+++ b/tests/test_linter/test_linter.py
@@ -451,6 +451,15 @@ def test_DJ018(runner: CliRunner, tmp_file: TextIO) -> None:
     result = runner.invoke(djlint, [tmp_file.name, "--profile", "jinja"])
     assert result.exit_code == 0
 
+    # test data-actions
+    write_to_file(
+        tmp_file.name,
+        b"""<form action="{% url 'something' %}" data-action="xxx"></form>""",
+    )
+
+    result = runner.invoke(djlint, [tmp_file.name, "--profile", "django"])
+    assert "D018" not in result.output
+
 
 def test_H019(runner: CliRunner, tmp_file: TextIO) -> None:
     write_to_file(tmp_file.name, b"<a href='javascript:abc()'>asdf</a>")