diff --git a/src/Forms/HTMLEditor/HTMLEditorField.php b/src/Forms/HTMLEditor/HTMLEditorField.php
index c84555571..31361fbd9 100644
--- a/src/Forms/HTMLEditor/HTMLEditorField.php
+++ b/src/Forms/HTMLEditor/HTMLEditorField.php
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ use SilverStripe\View\Parsers\HTMLValue;
 
 /**
  * A TinyMCE-powered WYSIWYG HTML editor field with image and link insertion and tracking capabilities. Editor fields
- * are created from <textarea> tags, which are then converted with JavaScript.
+ * are created from &lt;textarea&gt; tags, which are then converted with JavaScript.
  *
  * Caution: The form field does not include any JavaScript or CSS when used outside of the CMS context,
  * since the required frontend dependencies are included through CMS bundling.