diff --git a/adev/src/content/guide/templates/whitespace.md b/adev/src/content/guide/templates/whitespace.md
index a0ff607b2a3..21886c5868b 100644
--- a/adev/src/content/guide/templates/whitespace.md
+++ b/adev/src/content/guide/templates/whitespace.md
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Most developers prefer to format their templates with newlines and indentation t
 
 ```angular-html
 <section>
-  <h3>User profile</p>
+  <h3>User profile</h3>
   <label>
     User name
     <input>
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ This template contains whitespace between all of the elements. The following sni
 
 ```angular-html
 <!-- Total Whitespace: 20 -->
-<section>###<h3>User profile</p>###<label>#####User name#####<input>###</label>#</section>
+<section>###<h3>User profile</h3>###<label>#####User name#####<input>###</label>#</section>
 ```
 
 Preserving the whitespace as written in the template would result in many unnecessary [text nodes](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Text) and increase page rendering overhead. By ignoring this whitespace between elements, Angular performs less work when rendering the template on the page, improving overall performance.