diff --git a/docs/src/man/blockarrays.md b/docs/src/man/blockarrays.md
index 446a4798..fd61f8ef 100644
--- a/docs/src/man/blockarrays.md
+++ b/docs/src/man/blockarrays.md
@@ -2,9 +2,7 @@
 
 ```@meta
 DocTestSetup = quote
-    using BlockArrays
-    using Random
-    Random.seed!(1234)
+    using BlockArrays, SparseArrays
 end
 ```
 
@@ -12,22 +10,24 @@ end
 
 An `AbstractArray` can be repacked into a `BlockArray` with `BlockArray(array, block_sizes...)`.  The block sizes are each an `AbstractVector{Int}` which determines the size of the blocks in that dimension (so the sum of `block_sizes` in every dimension must match the size of `array` in that dimension).
 
-```julia
-julia> BlockArray(rand(4, 4), [2,2], [1,1,2])
-2×3-blocked 4×4 BlockMatrix{Float64}:
- 0.70393   │  0.568703  │  0.0137366  0.953038
- 0.24957   │  0.145924  │  0.884324   0.134155
- ──────────┼────────────┼─────────────────────
- 0.408133  │  0.707723  │  0.467458   0.326718
- 0.844314  │  0.794279  │  0.0421491  0.683791
-
-julia> block_array_sparse = BlockArray(sprand(4, 5, 0.7), [1,3], [2,3])
+```jldoctest
+julia> BlockArray(Array(reshape(1:16, 4, 4)), [2,2], [1,1,2])
+2×3-blocked 4×4 BlockMatrix{Int64}:
+ 1  │  5  │   9  13
+ 2  │  6  │  10  14
+ ───┼─────┼────────
+ 3  │  7  │  11  15
+ 4  │  8  │  12  16
+
+julia> S = spzeros(4,5); S[1,2] = S[4,3] = 1;
+
+julia> block_array_sparse = BlockArray(S, [1,3], [2,3])
 2×2-blocked 4×5 BlockMatrix{Float64, Matrix{SparseMatrixCSC{Float64, Int64}}, Tuple{BlockedUnitRange{Vector{Int64}}, BlockedUnitRange{Vector{Int64}}}}:
- 0.0341601  0.374187  │  0.0118196  0.299058  0.0
- ---------------------┼-------------------------------
- 0.0945445  0.931115  │  0.0460428  0.0       0.0
- 0.314926   0.438939  │  0.496169   0.0       0.0
- 0.12781    0.246862  │  0.732      0.449182  0.875096
+  ⋅   1.0  │   ⋅    ⋅    ⋅ 
+ ──────────┼───────────────
+  ⋅    ⋅   │   ⋅    ⋅    ⋅ 
+  ⋅    ⋅   │   ⋅    ⋅    ⋅ 
+  ⋅    ⋅   │  1.0   ⋅    ⋅ 
 ```
 
 
@@ -65,11 +65,11 @@ julia> BlockArray{Float32}(undef_blocks, [1,2], [3,2])
 
 The `block_type` should be an array type.  It specifies the internal block type, which defaults to an `Array` of the according dimension.  We can also use a `SparseVector` or any other user defined array type:
 
-```julia
+```jldoctest
 julia> BlockArray(undef_blocks, SparseVector{Float64, Int}, [1,2])
 2-blocked 3-element BlockVector{Float64, Vector{SparseVector{Float64, Int64}}, Tuple{BlockedUnitRange{Vector{Int64}}}}:
  #undef
- ------
+ ──────
  #undef
  #undef
 ```
@@ -78,10 +78,9 @@ julia> BlockArray(undef_blocks, SparseVector{Float64, Int}, [1,2])
 
     Note that accessing an undefined block will throw an "access to undefined reference"-error!  If you create an array with undefined blocks, you _have_ to [initialize it block-wise](@ref setting_and_getting)); whole-array functions like `fill!` will not work:
 
-    ```julia
+    ```jldoctest
     julia> fill!(BlockArray{Float32}(undef_blocks, [1,2], [3,2]), 0)
     ERROR: UndefRefError: access to undefined reference
-    …
     ```
 
 ## [Setting and getting blocks and values](@id setting_and_getting)
@@ -164,32 +163,35 @@ julia> view(A, Block.(1:2))
 
 An array can be repacked into a `BlockArray` with `BlockArray(array, block_sizes...)`:
 
-```jl
-julia> block_array_sparse = BlockArray(sprand(4, 5, 0.7), [1,3], [2,3])
-2×2-blocked 4×5 BlockArray{Float64, 2, Matrix{SparseMatrixCSC{Float64, Int64}}, Tuple{BlockedUnitRange{Vector{Int64}}, BlockedUnitRange{Vector{Int64}}}}:
- 0.0341601  0.374187  │  0.0118196  0.299058  0.0
- ---------------------┼-------------------------------
- 0.0945445  0.931115  │  0.0460428  0.0       0.0
- 0.314926   0.438939  │  0.496169   0.0       0.0
- 0.12781    0.246862  │  0.732      0.449182  0.875096
+```jldoctest repack
+julia> S = spzeros(4,5); S[1,2] = S[4,3] = 1;
+
+julia> block_array_sparse = BlockArray(S, [1,3], [2,3])
+2×2-blocked 4×5 BlockMatrix{Float64, Matrix{SparseMatrixCSC{Float64, Int64}}, Tuple{BlockedUnitRange{Vector{Int64}}, BlockedUnitRange{Vector{Int64}}}}:
+  ⋅   1.0  │   ⋅    ⋅    ⋅ 
+ ──────────┼───────────────
+  ⋅    ⋅   │   ⋅    ⋅    ⋅ 
+  ⋅    ⋅   │   ⋅    ⋅    ⋅ 
+  ⋅    ⋅   │  1.0   ⋅    ⋅ 
 ```
 
-To get back the underlying array use `Array`:
+To get back the underlying sparse array, use `sparse`:
 
-```jl
+```jldoctest repack
+julia> sparse(block_array_sparse)
+4×5 SparseMatrixCSC{Float64, Int64} with 2 stored entries:
+  ⋅   1.0   ⋅    ⋅    ⋅ 
+  ⋅    ⋅    ⋅    ⋅    ⋅ 
+  ⋅    ⋅    ⋅    ⋅    ⋅ 
+  ⋅    ⋅   1.0   ⋅    ⋅ 
+```
+
+To get a dense array, use `Array`:
+```jldoctest repack
 julia> Array(block_array_sparse)
-4×5 SparseMatrixCSC{Float64,Int64} with 13 stored entries:
-  [1, 1]  =  0.30006
-  [2, 1]  =  0.451742
-  [3, 1]  =  0.243174
-  [4, 1]  =  0.156468
-  [1, 2]  =  0.94057
-  [3, 2]  =  0.544175
-  [4, 2]  =  0.598345
-  [3, 3]  =  0.737486
-  [4, 3]  =  0.929512
-  [1, 4]  =  0.539601
-  [3, 4]  =  0.757658
-  [4, 4]  =  0.44709
-  [2, 5]  =  0.514679
+4×5 Matrix{Float64}:
+ 0.0  1.0  0.0  0.0  0.0
+ 0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0
+ 0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0
+ 0.0  0.0  1.0  0.0  0.0
 ```
diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
index ae85202e..a1873d8d 100644
--- a/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ end
 using Documenter
 @testset "docstrings" begin
     # don't test docstrings on old versions to avoid failures due to changes in types
-    if VERSION >= v"1.9"
+    if v"1.10" <= VERSION < v"1.11.0-"
         DocMeta.setdocmeta!(BlockArrays, :DocTestSetup, :(using BlockArrays); recursive=true)
-        doctest(BlockArrays)
+        doctest(BlockArrays, manual=false)
     end
 end