diff --git a/docs/doxygen/overviews/validator.h b/docs/doxygen/overviews/validator.h
index ee83eba309..d6ca08f83e 100644
--- a/docs/doxygen/overviews/validator.h
+++ b/docs/doxygen/overviews/validator.h
@@ -94,8 +94,6 @@ filtering. These handlers will capture events before the control itself does
 For an example implementation, see the @c valtext.h and @c valtext.cpp files in the
 wxWidgets library.
 
-wxwindow::SetExtraStyle( wxWS_EX_VALIDATE_RECURSIVELY )
-
 
 @section overview_validator_dialogs How Validators Interact with Dialogs