diff --git a/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/util/HtmlCharacterEntityDecoder.java b/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/util/HtmlCharacterEntityDecoder.java
index 2277edfff3a..2d6db518b20 100644
--- a/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/util/HtmlCharacterEntityDecoder.java
+++ b/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/util/HtmlCharacterEntityDecoder.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2019 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2021 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ class HtmlCharacterEntityDecoder {
 
 			boolean isPotentialReference = (this.nextPotentialReferencePosition != -1 &&
 					this.nextSemicolonPosition != -1 &&
-					this.nextPotentialReferencePosition - this.nextSemicolonPosition < MAX_REFERENCE_SIZE);
+					this.nextSemicolonPosition - this.nextPotentialReferencePosition < MAX_REFERENCE_SIZE);
 
 			if (isPotentialReference) {
 				break;
diff --git a/spring-web/src/test/java/org/springframework/web/util/HtmlUtilsTests.java b/spring-web/src/test/java/org/springframework/web/util/HtmlUtilsTests.java
index 68d31898f54..232a436e503 100644
--- a/spring-web/src/test/java/org/springframework/web/util/HtmlUtilsTests.java
+++ b/spring-web/src/test/java/org/springframework/web/util/HtmlUtilsTests.java
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
 public class HtmlUtilsTests {
 
 	@Test
-	public void testHtmlEscape() {
+	void testHtmlEscape() {
 		String unescaped = "\"This is a quote'";
 		String escaped = HtmlUtils.htmlEscape(unescaped);
 		assertThat(escaped).isEqualTo("&quot;This is a quote&#39;");
@@ -39,14 +39,14 @@ public class HtmlUtilsTests {
 	}
 
 	@Test
-	public void testHtmlUnescape() {
+	void testHtmlUnescape() {
 		String escaped = "&quot;This is a quote&#39;";
 		String unescaped = HtmlUtils.htmlUnescape(escaped);
 		assertThat(unescaped).isEqualTo("\"This is a quote'");
 	}
 
 	@Test
-	public void testEncodeIntoHtmlCharacterSet() {
+	void testEncodeIntoHtmlCharacterSet() {
 		assertThat(HtmlUtils.htmlEscape("")).as("An empty string should be converted to an empty string").isEqualTo("");
 		assertThat(HtmlUtils.htmlEscape("A sentence containing no special characters.")).as("A string containing no special characters should not be affected").isEqualTo("A sentence containing no special characters.");
 
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ public class HtmlUtilsTests {
 
 	// SPR-9293
 	@Test
-	public void testEncodeIntoHtmlCharacterSetFromUtf8() {
+	void testEncodeIntoHtmlCharacterSetFromUtf8() {
 		String utf8 = ("UTF-8");
 		assertThat(HtmlUtils.htmlEscape("", utf8)).as("An empty string should be converted to an empty string").isEqualTo("");
 		assertThat(HtmlUtils.htmlEscape("A sentence containing no special characters.")).as("A string containing no special characters should not be affected").isEqualTo("A sentence containing no special characters.");
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ public class HtmlUtilsTests {
 	}
 
 	@Test
-	public void testDecodeFromHtmlCharacterSet() {
+	void testDecodeFromHtmlCharacterSet() {
 		assertThat(HtmlUtils.htmlUnescape("")).as("An empty string should be converted to an empty string").isEqualTo("");
 		assertThat(HtmlUtils.htmlUnescape("This is a sentence containing no special characters.")).as("A string containing no special characters should not be affected").isEqualTo("This is a sentence containing no special characters.");