diff --git a/docs/topics/spiders.rst b/docs/topics/spiders.rst
index e5a539fe7..d501466de 100644
--- a/docs/topics/spiders.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/spiders.rst
@@ -179,8 +179,6 @@ scrapy.Spider
                    settings.setdefault("FEEDS", {}).update(cls.custom_feed)
                    super().update_settings(settings)
 
-
-
    .. method:: start_requests()
 
        This method must return an iterable with the first Requests to crawl for