diff --git a/docs/components/sdei.rst b/docs/components/sdei.rst
index 8c08789..7b6cc91 100644
--- a/docs/components/sdei.rst
+++ b/docs/components/sdei.rst
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@
 The SDEI dispatcher implementation provides ``sdei_dispatch_event()`` API for
 this purpose. The API has the following signature:
 
-::
+.. code:: c
 
         int sdei_dispatch_event(int ev_num);