[1.9.x] Fixed #25851 -- Removed links to deprecated assignment tag docs.

Backport of b6dd0afead80a17d0ac8c3ba35c510afac32a0b8 from master

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/docs/howto/custom-template-tags.txt b/docs/howto/custom-template-tags.txt
index f44715a14a..5beed7637e 100644
--- a/docs/howto/custom-template-tags.txt
+++ b/docs/howto/custom-template-tags.txt
@@ -649,8 +649,6 @@ positional arguments. For example:
 
     {% my_tag 123 "abcd" book.title warning=message|lower profile=user.profile %}
 
-.. _howto-custom-template-tags-assignment-tags:
-
 Assignment tags
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
@@ -1131,10 +1129,9 @@ The difference here is that ``do_current_time()`` grabs the format string and
 the variable name, passing both to ``CurrentTimeNode3``.
 
 Finally, if you only need to have a simple syntax for your custom
-context-updating template tag, you might want to consider using the
-:ref:`assignment tag <howto-custom-template-tags-assignment-tags>` shortcut
-we introduced above.
-
+context-updating template tag, consider using the
+:meth:`~django.template.Library.simple_tag` shortcut, which supports assigning
+the tag results to a template variable.
 
 Parsing until another block tag
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~