diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION.md b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION.md
index 63ad0c08a6..53844f7cf3 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION.md
+++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION.md
@@ -105,8 +105,7 @@ int main(void)
   if(curl) {
     CURLcode ret;
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/");
-    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION,
-                     (long)CURL_HTTP_VERSION_2TLS);
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, CURL_HTTP_VERSION_2TLS);
     ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);
     if(ret == CURLE_HTTP_RETURNED_ERROR) {
       /* an HTTP response error problem */