diff --git a/guides/source/working_with_javascript_in_rails.md b/guides/source/working_with_javascript_in_rails.md
index 8dbd97c701..dd7cd7335e 100644
--- a/guides/source/working_with_javascript_in_rails.md
+++ b/guides/source/working_with_javascript_in_rails.md
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ fetch("/test")
   });
 ```
 
-This code fetches data from "/test", and then appends the result to the `div`
+This code fetches data from "/test", and then appends the result to the element
 with an id of `results`.
 
 Rails provides quite a bit of built-in support for building web pages with this