diff --git a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/usage/OneMethodPrivateFieldCheck.java b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/usage/OneMethodPrivateFieldCheck.java
index a159842ff..df369001a 100644
--- a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/usage/OneMethodPrivateFieldCheck.java
+++ b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/usage/OneMethodPrivateFieldCheck.java
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.usage.transmogrify.SymTabAST;
  * <pre>
  * &lt;module name="usage.OneMethodPrivateField"/&gt;
  * </pre>
- * <p>
+ *
  * @author Rick Giles
  */
 public class OneMethodPrivateFieldCheck
diff --git a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/usage/UnusedLocalVariableCheck.java b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/usage/UnusedLocalVariableCheck.java
index bb2625ab7..0456e673c 100644
--- a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/usage/UnusedLocalVariableCheck.java
+++ b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/usage/UnusedLocalVariableCheck.java
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.TokenTypes;
  * <pre>
  * &lt;module name="usage.UnusedLocalVariable"/&gt;
  * </pre>
- * <p>
+ *
  * @author Rick Giles
  */
 public class UnusedLocalVariableCheck extends AbstractUsageCheck
diff --git a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/usage/UnusedParameterCheck.java b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/usage/UnusedParameterCheck.java
index 2722891fa..375b6eb8a 100644
--- a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/usage/UnusedParameterCheck.java
+++ b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/usage/UnusedParameterCheck.java
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.TokenTypes;
  * <pre>
  * &lt;module name="usage.UnusedParameter"/&gt;
  * </pre>
- * <p>
+ *
  * @author Rick Giles
  */
 public class UnusedParameterCheck extends AbstractUsageCheck
diff --git a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/usage/UnusedPrivateFieldCheck.java b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/usage/UnusedPrivateFieldCheck.java
index 4fbdccb4b..9a6707f0a 100644
--- a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/usage/UnusedPrivateFieldCheck.java
+++ b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/usage/UnusedPrivateFieldCheck.java
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.TokenTypes;
  * <pre>
  * &lt;module name="usage.UnusedPrivateField"/&gt;
  * </pre>
- * <p>
+ *
  * @author Rick Giles
  */
 public class UnusedPrivateFieldCheck
diff --git a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/usage/UnusedPrivateMethodCheck.java b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/usage/UnusedPrivateMethodCheck.java
index 3704bb8e9..2e9a49eec 100644
--- a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/usage/UnusedPrivateMethodCheck.java
+++ b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/usage/UnusedPrivateMethodCheck.java
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.TokenTypes;
  * <pre>
  * &lt;module name="usage.UnusedPrivateMethod"/&gt;
  * </pre>
- * <p>
+ *
  * @author Rick Giles
  */
 public class UnusedPrivateMethodCheck
diff --git a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/whitespace/EmptyForIteratorPadCheck.java b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/whitespace/EmptyForIteratorPadCheck.java
index 058228b18..be327a7d2 100644
--- a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/whitespace/EmptyForIteratorPadCheck.java
+++ b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/whitespace/EmptyForIteratorPadCheck.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ for (Iterator foo = very.long.line.iterator();
  * <pre>
  * &lt;module name="EmptyForIteratorPad"/&gt;
  * </pre>
- * <p>
+ *
  * @author Rick Giles
  * @version 1.0
  */
diff --git a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/whitespace/NoWhitespaceAfterCheck.java b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/whitespace/NoWhitespaceAfterCheck.java
index 65e39a512..de26d621c 100644
--- a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/whitespace/NoWhitespaceAfterCheck.java
+++ b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/whitespace/NoWhitespaceAfterCheck.java
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.TokenTypes;
  * </pre>
  * <p> An example of how to configure the check to forbid linebreaks after
  * a {@link TokenTypes#DOT DOT} token is:
+ * </p>
  * <pre>
  * &lt;module name="NoWhitespaceAfter"&gt;
  *     &lt;property name="tokens" value="DOT"/&gt;
diff --git a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/whitespace/NoWhitespaceBeforeCheck.java b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/whitespace/NoWhitespaceBeforeCheck.java
index d92d1f9cf..18a4498ca 100644
--- a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/whitespace/NoWhitespaceBeforeCheck.java
+++ b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/whitespace/NoWhitespaceBeforeCheck.java
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.TokenTypes;
  * </pre>
  * <p> An example of how to configure the check to allow linebreaks before
  * a {@link TokenTypes#DOT DOT} token is:
+ * </p>
  * <pre>
  * &lt;module name="NoWhitespaceBefore"&gt;
  *     &lt;property name="tokens" value="DOT"/&gt;