diff --git a/hledger/Hledger/Cli/Commands/Balance.md b/hledger/Hledger/Cli/Commands/Balance.md
index 8b7f30703..adea33308 100644
--- a/hledger/Hledger/Cli/Commands/Balance.md
+++ b/hledger/Hledger/Cli/Commands/Balance.md
@@ -885,8 +885,8 @@ then you might run the `balance` command with the extra option `--base-url=http:
 You can also produce relative links, like `--base-url="some/path"` or `--base-url=""`.)
 
 The balance reports' HTML output
-currently does not display tree mode reports properly ([#1846](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/issues/1846)).
-For now, if generating HTML you should probabBly use the default `--flat` mode.
+currently does not indent [tree mode](#list-or-tree-mode) reports properly ([#1846](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/issues/1846)).
+So in HTML balance reports, use list mode for now (it is the default).
 
 
 ### Some useful balance reports