diff --git a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/blocks/AvoidNestedBlocksCheck.java b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/blocks/AvoidNestedBlocksCheck.java
index 7c44c9ad8..dd155e364 100644
--- a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/blocks/AvoidNestedBlocksCheck.java
+++ b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/blocks/AvoidNestedBlocksCheck.java
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.DetailAST;
  *
  * <p>
  * For example this Check flags confusing code like
+ * </p>
  * <pre>
  * public void guessTheOutput()
  * {
diff --git a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/blocks/EmptyBlockCheck.java b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/blocks/EmptyBlockCheck.java
index b3ad30081..a044b1317 100644
--- a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/blocks/EmptyBlockCheck.java
+++ b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/blocks/EmptyBlockCheck.java
@@ -36,14 +36,17 @@ import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.AbstractOptionCheck;
  *  {@link TokenTypes#LITERAL_ELSE LITERAL_ELSE},
  *  {@link TokenTypes#LITERAL_FOR LITERAL_FOR},
  *  {@link TokenTypes#STATIC_INIT STATIC_INIT}.
+ * </p>
  *
  * <p> An example of how to configure the check is:
+ * </p>
  * <pre>
  * &lt;module name="EmptyBlock"/&gt;
  * </pre>
  *
  * <p> An example of how to configure the check for the {@link
  * BlockOption#TEXT} policy and only catch blocks is:
+ * </p>
  *
  * <pre>
  * &lt;module name="EmptyBlock"&gt;
diff --git a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/blocks/NeedBracesCheck.java b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/blocks/NeedBracesCheck.java
index 426f58c9e..3acdf1e2f 100644
--- a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/blocks/NeedBracesCheck.java
+++ b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/blocks/NeedBracesCheck.java
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.TokenTypes;
  * </pre>
  * <p> An example of how to configure the check for <code>if</code> and
  * <code>else</code> blocks is:
+ * </p>
  * <pre>
  * &lt;module name="NeedBraces"&gt;
  *     &lt;property name="tokens" value="LITERAL_IF, LITERAL_ELSE"/&gt;