diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
index c11f2b3ff7..5f7908b5ab 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
@@ -12377,7 +12377,7 @@ Some notes from Cal:
             <para>
                 If you want to force an up-to-date task to be rerun (e.g.
                 because you made manual modifications to the recipe's
-                <ulink linkend='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-WORKDIR'><filename>WORKDIR</filename></ulink>
+                <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-WORKDIR'><filename>WORKDIR</filename></ulink>
                 that you want to try out), then you can use the
                 <filename>-f</filename> option.
                 <note>