diff --git a/docs/formatstorageencryption.html.in b/docs/formatstorageencryption.html.in
index 2b222371af..04c3346614 100644
--- a/docs/formatstorageencryption.html.in
+++ b/docs/formatstorageencryption.html.in
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
     </p>
     <h3><a name="StorageEncryptionDefault">"default" format</a></h3>
     <p>
-      <code>&lt;encryption type="default"/&gt;</code> can be specified only
+      <code>&lt;encryption format="default"/&gt;</code> can be specified only
       when creating a volume.  If the volume is successfully created, the
       encryption formats, parameters and secrets will be auto-generated by
       libvirt and the attached <code>encryption</code> tag will be updated.