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diff --git a/docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt b/docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt
index b5ce71e321..4f33bd212c 100644
--- a/docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ autoescape
Control the current auto-escaping behavior. This tag takes either ``on`` or
``off`` as an argument and that determines whether auto-escaping is in effect
-inside the block.
+inside the block. The block is closed with an ``endautoescape`` ending tag.
When auto-escaping is in effect, all variable content has HTML escaping applied
to it before placing the result into the output (but after any filters have
@@ -34,6 +34,12 @@ The only exceptions are variables that are already marked as "safe" from
escaping, either by the code that populated the variable, or because it has had
the ``safe`` or ``escape`` filters applied.
+Sample usage::
+
+ {% autoescape on %}
+ {{ body }}
+ {% endautoescape %}
+
.. templatetag:: block
block