diff --git a/lisp/ox-html.el b/lisp/ox-html.el
index cf230adee..5a81c4ccf 100644
--- a/lisp/ox-html.el
+++ b/lisp/ox-html.el
@@ -2646,7 +2646,7 @@ holding contextual information."
                                 (format
                                  "<span class=\"section-number-%d\">%s</span> "
                                  level
-                                 (mapconcat #'number-to-string numbers ".")))
+                                 (concat (mapconcat #'number-to-string numbers ".") ".")))
                            formatted-text)
                           level)
                   ;; When there is no section, pretend there is an