diff --git a/docs/ref/request-response.txt b/docs/ref/request-response.txt
index 333a97259c..d8f4fe04a0 100644
--- a/docs/ref/request-response.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/request-response.txt
@@ -433,6 +433,14 @@ this is how you might return a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet::
 There's nothing Django-specific about the ``Content-Disposition`` header, but
 it's easy to forget the syntax, so we've included it here.
 
+Attributes
+----------
+
+.. attribute:: HttpResponse.content
+
+    A normal Python string representing the content, encoded from a Unicode
+    object if necessary.
+
 Methods
 -------
 
@@ -502,12 +510,6 @@ Methods
     values you used in ``set_cookie()`` -- otherwise the cookie may not be
     deleted.
 
-.. method:: HttpResponse.content()
-
-    Returns the content as a Python string, encoding it from a Unicode object
-    if necessary. Note this is a property, not a method, so use ``r.content``
-    instead of ``r.content()``.
-
 .. method:: HttpResponse.write(content)
 
     This method makes an :class:`HttpResponse` instance a file-like object.