diff --git a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/javac.html b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/javac.html
index 662c78ef6..328031e3c 100644
--- a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/javac.html
+++ b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/javac.html
@@ -764,7 +764,7 @@ while all others are <code>false</code>.</p>
   as an opensource project. The output of this project is a
   <code>javac.jar</code> which contains the javac compiler.
   This compiler may be used with the <code>&lt;javac&gt;</code> task with
-  the use of a "-Xbootstrapclass/p" java argument. The argument needs
+  the use of a <code>-Xbootclasspath/p</code> java argument. The argument needs
   to be given to the runtime system of the javac executable, so it needs
   to be prepended with a "-J". For example: