diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/features/external-config.adoc b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/features/external-config.adoc
index 5923e0beea4d..c53b245d5a46 100644
--- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/features/external-config.adoc
+++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/features/external-config.adoc
@@ -786,13 +786,13 @@ This style of configuration works particularly well with the `SpringApplication`
 [source,yaml,indent=0,subs="verbatim"]
 ----
 	my:
-		service:
-			remote-address: 192.168.1.1
-			security:
-				username: admin
-				roles:
-				  - USER
-				  - ADMIN
+	  service:
+	    remote-address: 192.168.1.1
+	    security:
+	      username: admin
+	      roles:
+	      - USER
+	      - ADMIN
 ----
 
 To work with `@ConfigurationProperties` beans, you can inject them in the same way as any other bean, as shown in the following example: