# Save docs version preference on website **URL:** \ **Category:** Meta Elastic\ **Created:** [January 5, 2016, 12:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/save-docs-version-preference-on-website/38398 "2016-01-05T12:05:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![frankkoornstra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/frankkoornstra/32/6780_2.png) [@frankkoornstra](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/frankkoornstra)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2016, 12:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/save-docs-version-preference-on-website/38398/1 "2016-01-05T12:05:52Z")
I'd love to see a feature where, when I come to the ES docs pages, it would remember which version of the docs I looked at last and tried to use that version. I often come to the docs through Google but almost always to the 1.4 or 1.6 docs, read a bit, go "huh? I thought they changed that" and then remember that I have to select the right version 🙂 Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![colings86](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/colings86/32/44960_2.png) [@colings86](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/colings86)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2016, 12:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/save-docs-version-preference-on-website/38398/2 "2016-01-05T12:20:45Z")
Thanks for the feedback, I have raised this with our website team to see what we could do. One potential problem I can see coming up is that I'm not sure how we would distinguish between a user just going to the documentation and the user explicitly wanting a particular version since the version is in the URL that you navigate to. ---
**Author:** ![frankkoornstra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/frankkoornstra/32/6780_2.png) [@frankkoornstra](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/frankkoornstra)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2016, 1:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/save-docs-version-preference-on-website/38398/3 "2016-01-05T13:54:36Z")
I hear what you say. A solution for that of the top of my head: if a version cookie is detected go to version in cookie. In case of an explicit switch, add an extra URL param (something like switch\_version=true) to signal to the code that the cookie should be rewritten with this new version. I have all the confidence that you might come up with a more elegant solution 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/save-docs-version-preference-on-website/38398/4 "2017-07-06T13:47:01Z")