diff --git a/components/serializer.rst b/components/serializer.rst
index d711a1b5993..704a8d6ff2e 100644
--- a/components/serializer.rst
+++ b/components/serializer.rst
@@ -1257,7 +1257,7 @@ These are the options available:
     Sets the root node name (default: ``response``).
 
 ``remove_empty_tags``
-    If set to true, removes all empty tags in the generated XML.
+    If set to true, removes all empty tags in the generated XML (default: ``false``).
 
 Handling Constructor Arguments
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