diff --git a/website/docs/language/functions/yamldecode.html.md b/website/docs/language/functions/yamldecode.html.md
index b24ae72aa8..0b90005909 100644
--- a/website/docs/language/functions/yamldecode.html.md
+++ b/website/docs/language/functions/yamldecode.html.md
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ supports only a subset of YAML 1.2, with restrictions including the following:
 ## Examples
 
 ```
-> yamldecode("{\"hello\": \"world\"}")
+> yamldecode("hello: world")
 {
   "hello" = "world"
 }