diff --git a/src/librustdoc/config.rs b/src/librustdoc/config.rs
index 81fb13f4166..1ce7efdfc20 100644
--- a/src/librustdoc/config.rs
+++ b/src/librustdoc/config.rs
@@ -273,6 +273,8 @@ pub(crate) struct RenderOptions {
     pub(crate) call_locations: AllCallLocations,
     /// If `true`, Context::init will not emit shared files.
     pub(crate) no_emit_shared: bool,
+    /// If `true`, HTML source code pages won't be generated.
+    pub(crate) html_no_source: bool,
 }
 
 #[derive(Copy, Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
@@ -686,6 +688,7 @@ fn println_condition(condition: Condition) {
         let generate_link_to_definition = matches.opt_present("generate-link-to-definition");
         let extern_html_root_takes_precedence =
             matches.opt_present("extern-html-root-takes-precedence");
+        let html_no_source = matches.opt_present("html-no-source");
 
         if generate_link_to_definition && (show_coverage || output_format != OutputFormat::Html) {
             diag.struct_err(
@@ -769,6 +772,7 @@ fn println_condition(condition: Condition) {
             generate_link_to_definition,
             call_locations,
             no_emit_shared: false,
+            html_no_source,
         };
         Ok((options, render_options))
     }
diff --git a/src/librustdoc/html/render/context.rs b/src/librustdoc/html/render/context.rs
index d7ff248a9bf..bb1c186668c 100644
--- a/src/librustdoc/html/render/context.rs
+++ b/src/librustdoc/html/render/context.rs
@@ -463,6 +463,7 @@ fn init(
             generate_link_to_definition,
             call_locations,
             no_emit_shared,
+            html_no_source,
             ..
         } = options;
 
@@ -488,7 +489,7 @@ fn init(
             scrape_examples_extension: !call_locations.is_empty(),
         };
         let mut issue_tracker_base_url = None;
-        let mut include_sources = true;
+        let mut include_sources = !html_no_source;
 
         // Crawl the crate attributes looking for attributes which control how we're
         // going to emit HTML
diff --git a/src/librustdoc/lib.rs b/src/librustdoc/lib.rs
index 8220df5d4f3..92e06f3ab0f 100644
--- a/src/librustdoc/lib.rs
+++ b/src/librustdoc/lib.rs
@@ -656,6 +656,9 @@ fn opts() -> Vec<RustcOptGroup> {
                 "[rust]",
             )
         }),
+        unstable("html-no-source", |o| {
+            o.optflag("", "html-no-source", "Disable HTML source code pages generation")
+        }),
     ]
 }
 
diff --git a/tests/run-make/issue-88756-default-output/output-default.stdout b/tests/run-make/issue-88756-default-output/output-default.stdout
index b280698230d..de8ff0e5f89 100644
--- a/tests/run-make/issue-88756-default-output/output-default.stdout
+++ b/tests/run-make/issue-88756-default-output/output-default.stdout
@@ -191,6 +191,8 @@ Options:
                         removed, see issue #44136
                         <https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/44136> for
                         more information
+        --html-no-source 
+                        Disable HTML source code pages generation
 
     @path               Read newline separated options from `path`
 
diff --git a/tests/rustdoc/html-no-source.rs b/tests/rustdoc/html-no-source.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..25615a73c3f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/rustdoc/html-no-source.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+// compile-flags: -Zunstable-options --html-no-source
+
+// This test ensures that the `--html-no-source` flag disables
+// the creation of the `src` folder.
+
+#![feature(staged_api)]
+#![stable(feature = "bar", since = "1.0")]
+#![crate_name = "foo"]
+
+// Ensures that there is no items in the corresponding "src" folder.
+// @files 'src/foo' '[]'
+
+// @has foo/fn.foo.html
+// @has - '//div[@class="main-heading"]/*[@class="out-of-band"]' '1.0 · '
+// @!has - '//div[@class="main-heading"]/*[@class="out-of-band"]' '1.0 · source · '
+#[stable(feature = "bar", since = "1.0")]
+pub fn foo() {}
+
+// @has foo/struct.Bar.html
+// @has - '//div[@class="main-heading"]/*[@class="out-of-band"]' '1.0 · '
+// @!has - '//div[@class="main-heading"]/*[@class="out-of-band"]' '1.0 · source · '
+#[stable(feature = "bar", since = "1.0")]
+pub struct Bar;
+
+impl Bar {
+    // @has - '//*[@id="method.bar"]/*[@class="since rightside"]' '2.0'
+    // @!has - '//*[@id="method.bar"]/*[@class="rightside"]' '2.0 ·'
+    #[stable(feature = "foobar", since = "2.0")]
+    pub fn bar() {}
+}