diff --git a/docs/topics/logging.txt b/docs/topics/logging.txt
index 7403bece62..789fa794d5 100644
--- a/docs/topics/logging.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/logging.txt
@@ -240,9 +240,9 @@ is the best source of information about logging configuration dictionaries.
 However, to give you a taste of what is possible, here are several examples.
 
 First, here's a configuration which writes all logging from the
-:ref:`django-logger` logger to a local file::
+:ref:`django-logger` logger to a local file:
 
-  .. code-block:: python
+.. code-block:: python
     :caption: settings.py
 
     LOGGING = {
@@ -275,9 +275,9 @@ console (same as Django's default logging config, except that the default only
 displays log records when ``DEBUG=True``). Django does not log many such
 messages. With this config, however, you can also set the environment variable
 ``DJANGO_LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG`` to see all of Django's debug logging which is very
-verbose as it includes all database queries::
+verbose as it includes all database queries:
 
-  .. code-block:: python
+.. code-block:: python
     :caption: settings.py
 
     import os
@@ -298,9 +298,9 @@ verbose as it includes all database queries::
         },
     }
 
-Finally, here's an example of a fairly complex logging setup::
+Finally, here's an example of a fairly complex logging setup:
 
-  .. code-block:: python
+.. code-block:: python
     :caption: settings.py
 
     LOGGING = {