diff --git a/playwright/src/main/java/com/microsoft/playwright/impl/LocatorUtils.java b/playwright/src/main/java/com/microsoft/playwright/impl/LocatorUtils.java
index 12c53ab8..7985da9d 100644
--- a/playwright/src/main/java/com/microsoft/playwright/impl/LocatorUtils.java
+++ b/playwright/src/main/java/com/microsoft/playwright/impl/LocatorUtils.java
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ public class LocatorUtils {
     //   cssEscape(value).replace(/\\ /g, ' ')
     // However, our attribute selectors do not conform to CSS parsing spec,
     // so we escape them differently.
-    return '"' + value.replaceAll("\"", "\\\\\"") + '"' + (exact ? "" : "i");
+    return '"' + value.replaceAll("\\\\", "\\\\\\\\").replaceAll("\"", "\\\\\"") + '"' + (exact ? "" : "i");
   }
 
   private static String toJsRegExp(Pattern pattern) {
diff --git a/playwright/src/test/java/com/microsoft/playwright/TestSelectorsGetBy.java b/playwright/src/test/java/com/microsoft/playwright/TestSelectorsGetBy.java
index 86d4bb1d..c261a2f9 100644
--- a/playwright/src/test/java/com/microsoft/playwright/TestSelectorsGetBy.java
+++ b/playwright/src/test/java/com/microsoft/playwright/TestSelectorsGetBy.java
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 package com.microsoft.playwright;
 
+import com.microsoft.playwright.assertions.LocatorAssertions;
 import com.microsoft.playwright.options.AriaRole;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 
@@ -147,6 +148,11 @@ public class TestSelectorsGetBy extends TestBase {
     assertThat(page.getByPlaceholder("hello my\nworld")).hasAttribute("id", "control");
     assertThat(page.getByAltText("hello my\nworld")).hasAttribute("id", "control");
     assertThat(page.getByTitle("hello my\nworld")).hasAttribute("id", "control");
+
+    page.setContent("<div id=target title='my title'>Text here</div>");
+    assertThat(page.getByTitle("my title", new Page.GetByTitleOptions().setExact(true))).hasCount(1, new LocatorAssertions.HasCountOptions().setTimeout(500));
+    assertThat(page.getByTitle("my t\\itle", new Page.GetByTitleOptions().setExact(true))).hasCount(0, new LocatorAssertions.HasCountOptions().setTimeout(500));
+    assertThat(page.getByTitle("my t\\\\itle", new Page.GetByTitleOptions().setExact(true))).hasCount(0, new LocatorAssertions.HasCountOptions().setTimeout(500));
   }
 
   @Test
@@ -178,6 +184,16 @@ public class TestSelectorsGetBy extends TestBase {
     assertEquals(
       asList("<a href=\"https://playwright.dev\">he llo 56</a>"),
       page.getByRole(AriaRole.LINK, new Page.GetByRoleOptions().setName("   he \n llo 56 ").setExact(true)).evaluateAll("els => els.map(e => e.outerHTML)"));
+
+    assertEquals(
+      asList("<button>Click me</button>"),
+      page.getByRole(AriaRole.BUTTON, new Page.GetByRoleOptions().setName("Click me").setExact(true)).evaluateAll("els => els.map(e => e.outerHTML)"));
+    assertEquals(
+      asList(),
+      page.getByRole(AriaRole.BUTTON, new Page.GetByRoleOptions().setName("Click \\me").setExact(true)).evaluateAll("els => els.map(e => e.outerHTML)"));
+    assertEquals(
+      asList(),
+      page.getByRole(AriaRole.BUTTON, new Page.GetByRoleOptions().setName("Click \\\\me").setExact(true)).evaluateAll("els => els.map(e => e.outerHTML)"));
   }
 
   @Test