diff --git a/docs/templates/pages/base-css.mustache b/docs/templates/pages/base-css.mustache
index fd9a82f502..833e196ef7 100644
--- a/docs/templates/pages/base-css.mustache
+++ b/docs/templates/pages/base-css.mustache
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@
     </div><!--/span-->
     <div class="span4">
       <h2>Basic block</h2>
-      <p>{{_i}}Use <code>&lt;pre&gt;</code> for multiple lines of code. Be sure to turn any angle brackets into unicode characters for proper rendering.{{/i}}</p>
+      <p>{{_i}}Use <code>&lt;pre&gt;</code> for multiple lines of code. Be sure to escape any angle brackets in the code for proper rendering.{{/i}}</p>
 <pre>
 &lt;p&gt;{{_i}}Sample text here...{{/i}}&lt;/p&gt;
 </pre>