diff --git a/Doc/library/html.parser.rst b/Doc/library/html.parser.rst
index 341a8337ba2..92117cba1ad 100644
--- a/Doc/library/html.parser.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/html.parser.rst
@@ -141,7 +141,8 @@ implementations do nothing (except for :meth:`~HTMLParser.handle_startendtag`):
    argument is a list of ``(name, value)`` pairs containing the attributes found
    inside the tag's ``<>`` brackets.  The *name* will be translated to lower case,
    and quotes in the *value* have been removed, and character and entity references
-   have been replaced.
+   have been replaced. If a boolean attribute is encountered, the *value* for the
+   ``(name, value)`` attribute pair will be ``None``.
 
    For instance, for the tag ``<A HREF="https://www.cwi.nl/">``, this method
    would be called as ``handle_starttag('a', [('href', 'https://www.cwi.nl/')])``.
@@ -317,6 +318,16 @@ without further parsing:
    Data     : alert("<strong>hello! &#9786;</strong>");
    End tag  : script
 
+Boolean attributes have a *value* of ``None``:
+
+.. doctest::
+
+   >>> parser.feed("<script src='/script.js' defer></script>")
+   Start tag: script
+        attr: ('src', '/script.js')
+        attr: ('defer', None)
+   End tag  : script
+
 Parsing comments:
 
 .. doctest::