diff --git a/docs/topics/class-based-views/intro.txt b/docs/topics/class-based-views/intro.txt
index 5868b6be03a..11d1f84ffeb 100644
--- a/docs/topics/class-based-views/intro.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/class-based-views/intro.txt
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ and methods in the subclass. So that if your parent class had an attribute
 
 You can override that in a subclass::
 
-    class MorningGreetingView(MyView):
+    class MorningGreetingView(GreetingView):
         greeting = "Morning to ya"
 
 Another option is to configure class attributes as keyword arguments to the