diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4435bb4..f5f6d9b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 Version History
 ===
+### 1.2.2
+* add uniform support for `v-*` and `:*` attributes
+
 ### 1.2.1
 * add support for :text attributes
 * some refactoring
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index cb174d5..d2d61a7 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.2.1
\ No newline at end of file
+1.2.2
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/babelvueextractor/lexer.py b/babelvueextractor/lexer.py
index 3a6f2e8..a25634c 100644
--- a/babelvueextractor/lexer.py
+++ b/babelvueextractor/lexer.py
@@ -34,23 +34,18 @@
 DOUBLE_WAY_BINDING_END = '}}'
 COMMENT_START = '<!--'
 COMMENT_END = '-->'
-HTML_ATTRIBUTE_END = '"'
-TEXT_DIRECTIVE_START = 'v-text="'
-HTML_DIRECTIVE_START = 'v-html="'
-COLON_TEXT_DIRECTIVE_START = '\x3atext="'  # 0x3a = ":"
+V_DIRECTIVE_PREFIX = 'v-'
+COLON_DIRECTIVE_PREFIX = '\x3a'  # 0x3a = ":"
 
-tag_re = re.compile('(%s.*?%s|%s.*?%s|%s.*?%s|%s.*?%s|%s.*?%s|(?:%s|%s|%s).*?%s)' % (
+tag_re = re.compile('(%s.*?%s|%s.*?%s|%s.*?%s|%s.*?%s|%s.*?%s|(?:%s|%s).+?=".*?")' % (
     re.escape(CONST_START), re.escape(CONST_END),
     re.escape(RAW_HTML_TAG_START), re.escape(RAW_HTML_TAG_END),
     re.escape(VARIABLE_TAG_START), re.escape(VARIABLE_TAG_END),
     re.escape(COMMENT_START), re.escape(COMMENT_END),
     re.escape(DOUBLE_WAY_BINDING_START), re.escape(DOUBLE_WAY_BINDING_END),
 
-    re.escape(TEXT_DIRECTIVE_START),
-    re.escape(HTML_DIRECTIVE_START),
-    re.escape(COLON_TEXT_DIRECTIVE_START),
-
-    re.escape(HTML_ATTRIBUTE_END),
+    V_DIRECTIVE_PREFIX,
+    COLON_DIRECTIVE_PREFIX,
 ))
 
 
@@ -136,20 +131,10 @@ def create_token(self, token_string, in_tag):
                 _end = len(VARIABLE_TAG_END)
                 token_type = TOKEN_VAR
 
-            elif token_string.startswith(TEXT_DIRECTIVE_START):
-                _start = len(TEXT_DIRECTIVE_START)
-                _end = len(HTML_ATTRIBUTE_END)
-                token_type = TOKEN_DIRECTIVE
-
-            elif token_string.startswith(HTML_DIRECTIVE_START):
-                _start = len(HTML_DIRECTIVE_START)
-                _end = len(HTML_ATTRIBUTE_END)
-                token_type = TOKEN_DIRECTIVE
-
-            elif token_string.startswith(COLON_TEXT_DIRECTIVE_START):
+            elif token_string.endswith('"'):
                 token_type = TOKEN_DIRECTIVE
-                _start = len(COLON_TEXT_DIRECTIVE_START)
-                _end = len(HTML_ATTRIBUTE_END)
+                # eg. v-text="attr" => ['v-text=', 'attr', '']
+                content = token_string.split('"')[1]
 
             if _start is not None:
                 content = token_string[_start:-_end].strip()
diff --git a/babelvueextractor/tests/test_extractor.py b/babelvueextractor/tests/test_extractor.py
index 33f882c..5147b25 100644
--- a/babelvueextractor/tests/test_extractor.py
+++ b/babelvueextractor/tests/test_extractor.py
@@ -147,3 +147,9 @@ def test_html_directives(self):
         result = extract_vue(template, DEFAULT_KEYWORDS.keys(), [], TEST_OPTIONS)
         self.assertListEqual(list(result), [(2, u'gettext', u'Sometext', [])])
 
+    def test_colon_directives(self):
+        template = FileMock("""
+        <div :html="gettext('Sometext')"></div>
+        """)
+        result = extract_vue(template, DEFAULT_KEYWORDS.keys(), [], TEST_OPTIONS)
+        self.assertListEqual(list(result), [(2, u'gettext', u'Sometext', [])])