# Why did the \`source\` button in Julia docs disappear?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-did-the-source-button-in-julia-docs-disappear/90205>\
**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Created:** [November 13, 2022, 8:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-did-the-source-button-in-julia-docs-disappear/90205 "2022-11-13T20:41:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![biona001](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/biona001/32/16497_2.png) [@biona001](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/biona001)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2022, 8:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-did-the-source-button-in-julia-docs-disappear/90205/1 "2022-11-13T20:41:41Z")

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Sometimes I wish to see how exactly a function in Base is implemented, e.g. the 3 argument `dot` function.

But the documentation doesn’t have the blue `source` button that links me directly to the code on Github  
[https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/stdlib/LinearAlgebra/#LinearAlgebra.dot-Tuple{Any,%20Any,%20Any}](https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/stdlib/LinearAlgebra/#LinearAlgebra.dot-Tuple%7BAny,%20Any,%20Any%7D)

I could (very tediously) do

```julia
using LinearAlgebra
x = rand(5);
A = rand(5, 5);
y = rand(5);
@which dot(x, A, y)

```

which finally leads me to [its source code](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/stdlib/LinearAlgebra/src/generic.jl#L921), but I just remember the official Julia docs used to have those blue buttons. What happened?

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**Author:** ![Sukera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sukera](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Sukera)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2022, 8:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-did-the-source-button-in-julia-docs-disappear/90205/2 "2022-11-13T20:47:36Z")

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Seems like a problem with that part of the documentation - they are still there elsewhere, e.g. for `occursin`:

[https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/base/strings/#Base.occursin](https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/base/strings/#Base.occursin)

Please open an issue [on the issue tracker](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia) about this.