diff --git a/spring-webmvc/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/servlet/tags/UrlTag.java b/spring-webmvc/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/servlet/tags/UrlTag.java
index 4d6cd703e0d17145eba5dde88d924e89d8e1997f..30b15bf6cfe9d18776c4c1018a1c0fbdefaa0893 100644
--- a/spring-webmvc/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/servlet/tags/UrlTag.java
+++ b/spring-webmvc/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/servlet/tags/UrlTag.java
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ import org.springframework.web.util.UriUtils;
  * over direct EL substitution as the values are URL encoded.  Failure to properly
  * encode URL can leave an application vulnerable to XSS and other injection attacks.
  *
- * <p>URLs can be HTML/XML escaped by setting the {@link #setHtmlEscape(String)
+ * <p>URLs can be HTML/XML escaped by setting the {@link #setHtmlEscape(boolean)
  * 'htmlEscape'} attribute to 'true'.  Detects an HTML escaping setting, either on
  * this tag instance, the page level, or the {@code web.xml} level. The default
  * is 'false'.  When setting the URL value into a variable, escaping is not recommended.