diff --git a/cmake/README.md b/cmake/README.md
index acee773f..077a436e 100644
--- a/cmake/README.md
+++ b/cmake/README.md
@@ -2,11 +2,14 @@ This is an example of adding the wolfSSL library as a subdirectory to a project
 and using cmake to build.
 
 ## Steps to build:
-
-\# clone or download the wolfssl bundle and put it in the subdirectory wolfssl
+    
+```
+# clone or download the wolfssl bundle and put it in the subdirectory wolfssl
 git clone https://github.com/wolfssl/wolfssl
 mkdir build
 cd build
 cmake .. -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS=-I../include/
 make
 ./hash example_string
+```
+