diff --git a/docs/manual/targets.html b/docs/manual/targets.html
index 447f990a0..a57bb1441 100644
--- a/docs/manual/targets.html
+++ b/docs/manual/targets.html
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@
     </pre></blockquote>
 
   <p>Especially if you only have a few tasks you also could place these
-    tasks direclty under the project tag (since Ant 1.6.0):</p>
+    tasks directly under the project tag (since Ant 1.6.0):</p>
     <blockquote><pre>
     &lt;project&gt;
         &lt;tstamp/&gt;