diff --git a/docs/docsite/rst/reference_appendices/YAMLSyntax.rst b/docs/docsite/rst/reference_appendices/YAMLSyntax.rst
index 70119b4c96..d5ce5c8502 100644
--- a/docs/docsite/rst/reference_appendices/YAMLSyntax.rst
+++ b/docs/docsite/rst/reference_appendices/YAMLSyntax.rst
@@ -137,8 +137,8 @@ Gotchas
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 While you can put just about anything into an unquoted scalar, there are some exceptions.
-A colon followed by a space (or newline) ``: `` is an indicator for a mapping.
-A space followed by the pound sign `` #`` starts a comment.
+A colon followed by a space (or newline) ``": "`` is an indicator for a mapping.
+A space followed by the pound sign ``" #"`` starts a comment.
 
 Because of this, the following is going to result in a YAML syntax error::