diff --git a/docs/reference/mapping/types/nested.asciidoc b/docs/reference/mapping/types/nested.asciidoc
index 52410728f3dc4..9db58dc2f484d 100644
--- a/docs/reference/mapping/types/nested.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/reference/mapping/types/nested.asciidoc
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ phase.  Instead, highlighting needs to be performed via
 
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+[[limit-number-nested-fields]]
 ==== Limiting the number of `nested` fields
 
 Indexing a document with 100 nested fields actually indexes 101 documents as each nested