diff --git a/docs/ref/utils.txt b/docs/ref/utils.txt
index e9b29602ac..b103a9acdf 100644
--- a/docs/ref/utils.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/utils.txt
@@ -568,11 +568,11 @@ escaping HTML.
 
 .. function:: remove_tags(value, tags)
 
-    Removes a list of [X]HTML tag names from the output.
+    Removes a space-separated list of [X]HTML tag names from the output.
 
     For example::
 
-        remove_tags(value, ["b", "span"])
+        remove_tags(value, "b span")
 
     If ``value`` is ``"<b>Joel</b> <button>is</button> a <span>slug</span>"`` the
     return value will be ``"Joel <button>is</button> a slug"``.