diff --git a/docs/README.md b/docs/README.md
index edd25eadaf4..65f3cb66308 100644
--- a/docs/README.md
+++ b/docs/README.md
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ Updating docs can be confusing. Here are the basic setups.
 1. Build the docs, from the inside of the docs folder.
     * **Requires** sphinx: `pip install sphinx`
     * **Requires** nbsphinx: `pip install nbsphinx` (this will render the images from jupyter in the docs)
+    * **Requires** sphinx-copybutton: `pip install sphinx-copybutton` (this will enable a copy option at the top of the code written in the docs)
     * `make html`
 1. Commit the changes. If there are new files, you will have to explicit add them.
     * `git commit -am "Updating docs."`
@@ -32,5 +33,5 @@ From this point, you will need to find someone that has access to readthedocs. C
 ### Helpful Sphnix tips
 * Build html from docs:
   * `make html`
-* Autogenerate / update sphninx from docstrings (replace your name as the author:
+* Autogenerate / update sphninx from docstrings (replace your name as the author):
   * `sphinx-apidoc -A "Jackie Kazil" -F -o docs mesa/`
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diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 24dfa07b786..84d0f087eab 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
     "sphinx.ext.viewcode",
     "sphinx.ext.napoleon",  # for google style docstrings
     "myst_nb",  # For Markdown and Jupyter notebooks
+    "sphinx_copybutton" # For copying the code in the documentation
 ]
 
 # Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.