diff --git a/docs/ref/forms/validation.txt b/docs/ref/forms/validation.txt
index 056bd93992..ed6f41e30a 100644
--- a/docs/ref/forms/validation.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/forms/validation.txt
@@ -193,9 +193,9 @@ previous features.
 
 Using validators
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-.. versionadded::
+.. versionadded:: 1.2
 
-Django's form- (and model-) fields support use of simple uitility functions and
+Django's form (and model) fields support use of simple utility functions and
 classes known as validators. These can be added to fields on their declaration
 as argument to ``__init__`` or defined on the Field class itself.
 
@@ -209,26 +209,22 @@ look at Django's ``EmailField``::
         default_validators = [validators.validate_email]
 
 As you can see, ``EmailField`` is just a ``CharField`` with customized error
-message and a validator that validates e-mail addresses. This can also be done on field definition so::
+message and a validator that validates e-mail addresses. This can also be done
+on field definition so::
 
     email = forms.EmailField()
 
 is equivalent to::
 
-    email = forms.CharField(
-            error_messages={
-                'invalid': _(u'Enter a valid e-mail address.'),
-            },
-            validators=[validators.validate_email]
-        )
+    email = forms.CharField(validators=[validators.validate_email],
+            error_messages={'invalid': _(u'Enter a valid e-mail address.')})
 
 
 Form field default cleaning
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 Let's firstly create a custom form field that validates its input is a string
-containing comma-separated e-mail addresses, with at least one address. The
-full class looks like this::
+containing comma-separated e-mail addresses. The full class looks like this::
 
     from django import forms
     from django.core.validators import validate_email
@@ -236,13 +232,17 @@ full class looks like this::
     class MultiEmailField(forms.Field):
         def to_python(self, value):
             "Normalize data to a list of strings."
+
+            # return empty list on empty input
+            if not value: return []
+
             return value.split(',')
 
         def validate(self, value):
             "Check if value consists only of valid emails."
 
             # check if value is given if the field is required
-            super(MultiEmailField, self).validate()
+            super(MultiEmailField, self).validate(value)
 
             for email in value:
                 validate_email(email)