diff --git a/Doc/tools/sphinxext/pyspecific.py b/Doc/tools/sphinxext/pyspecific.py
index e37ef89fcd52..3e80e12c0791 100644
--- a/Doc/tools/sphinxext/pyspecific.py
+++ b/Doc/tools/sphinxext/pyspecific.py
@@ -180,7 +180,10 @@ def run(self):
         elif not SPHINX11:
             para = nodes.paragraph('', '',
                 nodes.inline('', '%s.' % text, classes=['versionmodified']))
-            node.append(para)
+            if len(node):
+                node.insert(0, para)
+            else:
+                node.append(para)
         env = self.state.document.settings.env
         env.note_versionchange('deprecated', version[0], node, self.lineno)
         return [node] + messages
diff --git a/Doc/tools/sphinxext/static/basic.css b/Doc/tools/sphinxext/static/basic.css
index 3242a8134586..dd1a9d449a0a 100644
--- a/Doc/tools/sphinxext/static/basic.css
+++ b/Doc/tools/sphinxext/static/basic.css
@@ -344,6 +344,7 @@ .deprecated, .deprecated-removed {
 
 div.deprecated p, div.deprecated-removed p {
     margin-bottom: 0;
+    margin-top: 0;
 }
 
 .system-message {