diff --git a/components/com_contact/layouts/joomla/form/renderfield.php b/components/com_contact/layouts/joomla/form/renderfield.php
index 6f9cba2cce13c..45fe6684a1db2 100644
--- a/components/com_contact/layouts/joomla/form/renderfield.php
+++ b/components/com_contact/layouts/joomla/form/renderfield.php
@@ -27,12 +27,28 @@
 
 $class = empty($options['class']) ? '' : ' ' . $options['class'];
 $rel   = empty($options['rel']) ? '' : ' ' . $options['rel'];
+
+/**
+ * @TODO:
+ *
+ * As mentioned in #8473 (https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/8473), ...
+ * as long as we cannot access the field properties properly, this seems to
+ * be the way to go for now.
+ *
+ * On a side note: Parsing html is seldom a good idea.
+ * https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454
+ */
+preg_match('/class=\"([^\"]+)\"/i', $input, $match);
+
+$required      = (strpos($input, 'aria-required="true"') !== false || (!empty($match[1]) && strpos($match[1], 'required') !== false));
+$typeOfSpacer  = (strpos($label, 'spacer-lbl') !== false);
+
 ?>
 <div class="control-group<?php echo $class; ?>"<?php echo $rel; ?>>
 	<?php if (empty($options['hiddenLabel'])) : ?>
 		<div class="control-label">
 			<?php echo $label; ?>
-			<?php if (strpos($input, 'aria-required="true"') === false && strpos($label, 'spacer-lbl') === false) : ?>
+			<?php if (!$required && !$typeOfSpacer) : ?>
 				<span class="optional"><?php echo JText::_('COM_CONTACT_OPTIONAL'); ?></span>
 			<?php endif; ?>
 		</div>