diff --git a/solr/solr-ref-guide/src/tokenizers.adoc b/solr/solr-ref-guide/src/tokenizers.adoc
index c2fcf60579f..a35149910f9 100644
--- a/solr/solr-ref-guide/src/tokenizers.adoc
+++ b/solr/solr-ref-guide/src/tokenizers.adoc
@@ -223,8 +223,6 @@ Reads the field text and generates edge n-gram tokens of sizes in the given rang
 
 `maxGramSize`: (integer, default is 1) The maximum n-gram size, must be >= `minGramSize`.
 
-`side`: ("front" or "back", default is "front") Whether to compute the n-grams from the beginning (front) of the text or from the end (back).
-
 *Example:*
 
 Default behavior (min and max default to 1):
@@ -255,21 +253,6 @@ Edge n-gram range of 2 to 5
 
 **Out:**"ba", "bab", "baba", "babal"
 
-*Example:*
-
-Edge n-gram range of 2 to 5, from the back side:
-
-[source,xml]
-----
-<analyzer>
-  <tokenizer class="solr.EdgeNGramTokenizerFactory" minGramSize="2" maxGramSize="5" side="back"/>
-</analyzer>
-----
-
-*In:* "babaloo"
-
-*Out:* "oo", "loo", "aloo", "baloo"
-
 == ICU Tokenizer
 
 This tokenizer processes multilingual text and tokenizes it appropriately based on its script attribute.