diff --git a/typo3/sysext/frontend/Classes/Http/RequestHandler.php b/typo3/sysext/frontend/Classes/Http/RequestHandler.php
index f74176df93d466c6f23d181f2694700923a44571..65a025d08a4ff77380fc95553c26eb5c8227dbab 100644
--- a/typo3/sysext/frontend/Classes/Http/RequestHandler.php
+++ b/typo3/sysext/frontend/Classes/Http/RequestHandler.php
@@ -428,7 +428,8 @@ class RequestHandler implements RequestHandlerInterface
                                 // To fix MSIE 6 that cannot handle these as relative paths (according to Ben v Ende)
                                 $ss = GeneralUtility::dirname(GeneralUtility::getIndpEnv('SCRIPT_NAME')) . '/' . $ss;
                             }
-                            $pageRenderer->addCssInlineBlock('import_' . $key, '@import url("' . htmlspecialchars($ss) . '") ' . htmlspecialchars($cssFileConfig['media']) . ';', empty($cssFileConfig['disableCompression']), (bool)$cssFileConfig['forceOnTop']);
+                            $cssMedia = !empty($cssFileConfig['media']) ? ' ' . htmlspecialchars($cssFileConfig['media']) : '';
+                            $pageRenderer->addCssInlineBlock('import_' . $key, '@import url("' . htmlspecialchars($ss) . '")' . $cssMedia . ';', empty($cssFileConfig['disableCompression']), (bool)$cssFileConfig['forceOnTop']);
                         } else {
                             $pageRenderer->addCssFile(
                                 $ss,
@@ -470,7 +471,8 @@ class RequestHandler implements RequestHandlerInterface
                                 // To fix MSIE 6 that cannot handle these as relative paths (according to Ben v Ende)
                                 $ss = GeneralUtility::dirname(GeneralUtility::getIndpEnv('SCRIPT_NAME')) . '/' . $ss;
                             }
-                            $pageRenderer->addCssInlineBlock('import_' . $key, '@import url("' . htmlspecialchars($ss) . '") ' . htmlspecialchars($cssFileConfig['media']) . ';', empty($cssFileConfig['disableCompression']), (bool)$cssFileConfig['forceOnTop']);
+                            $cssMedia = !empty($cssFileConfig['media']) ? ' ' . htmlspecialchars($cssFileConfig['media']) : '';
+                            $pageRenderer->addCssInlineBlock('import_' . $key, '@import url("' . htmlspecialchars($ss) . '")' . $cssMedia . ';', empty($cssFileConfig['disableCompression']), (bool)$cssFileConfig['forceOnTop']);
                         } else {
                             $pageRenderer->addCssLibrary(
                                 $ss,