diff --git a/docs/testing.rst b/docs/testing.rst
index 790eddf6..b9f0806b 100644
--- a/docs/testing.rst
+++ b/docs/testing.rst
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ like this::
             text='<strong>HTML</strong> allowed here'
         ), follow_redirects=True)
         assert 'No entries here so far' not in rv.data
-        assert '&lt;Hello&gt' in rv.data
+        assert '&lt;Hello&gt;' in rv.data
         assert '<strong>HTML</strong> allowed here' in rv.data
 
 Here we check that HTML is allowed in the text but not in the title,
diff --git a/examples/flaskr/flaskr_tests.py b/examples/flaskr/flaskr_tests.py
index 07e702c4..06bf1035 100644
--- a/examples/flaskr/flaskr_tests.py
+++ b/examples/flaskr/flaskr_tests.py
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ class FlaskrTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
             text='<strong>HTML</strong> allowed here'
         ), follow_redirects=True)
         assert 'No entries here so far' not in rv.data
-        assert '&lt;Hello&gt' in rv.data
+        assert '&lt;Hello&gt;' in rv.data
         assert '<strong>HTML</strong> allowed here' in rv.data