diff --git a/webapp/views/locus.py b/webapp/views/locus.py
index a3e27fd94..eefa4755d 100644
--- a/webapp/views/locus.py
+++ b/webapp/views/locus.py
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@
                          format_orthogroup, format_pfam,
                          format_refseqid_to_ncbi, format_swissprot_entry,
                          format_taxid_to_ncbi, genomic_region_df_to_js,
-                         locusx_genomic_region, my_locals, optional2status)
+                         locusx_genomic_region, make_div, my_locals,
+                         optional2status)
 
 
 def tab_general(db, seqid):
@@ -606,28 +607,6 @@ def show_homology_info(self):
         return self.n_homologues > 1
 
 
-def make_div(figure_or_data, include_plotlyjs=False, show_link=False,
-             div_id=None):
-    from plotly import offline
-    div = offline.plot(
-        figure_or_data,
-        include_plotlyjs=include_plotlyjs,
-        show_link=show_link,
-        output_type="div",
-    )
-    if ".then(function ()" in div:
-        div = """{div.partition(".then(function ()")[0]}</script>"""
-    if div_id:
-        import re
-
-        try:
-            existing_id = re.findall(r'id="(.*?)"|$', div)[0]
-            div = div.replace(existing_id, div_id)
-        except IndexError:
-            pass
-    return div
-
-
 def tab_lengths(n_homologues, annotations):
     import plotly.figure_factory as ff
 
diff --git a/webapp/views/utils.py b/webapp/views/utils.py
index a3dca2ca7..0a94d816a 100644
--- a/webapp/views/utils.py
+++ b/webapp/views/utils.py
@@ -384,3 +384,25 @@ def genomic_region_df_to_js(df, start, end, name=None):
     if name is not None:
         genome_name = f"name: {to_s(name)}, "
     return f"{{{genome_name} start: {start}, end: {end}, features: {features_str}}}"
+
+
+def make_div(figure_or_data, include_plotlyjs=False, show_link=False,
+             div_id=None):
+    from plotly import offline
+    div = offline.plot(
+        figure_or_data,
+        include_plotlyjs=include_plotlyjs,
+        show_link=show_link,
+        output_type="div",
+    )
+    if ".then(function ()" in div:
+        div = """{div.partition(".then(function ()")[0]}</script>"""
+    if div_id:
+        import re
+
+        try:
+            existing_id = re.findall(r'id="(.*?)"|$', div)[0]
+            div = div.replace(existing_id, div_id)
+        except IndexError:
+            pass
+    return div
diff --git a/webapp/views/views.py b/webapp/views/views.py
index 6a5ed5026..f615e6019 100644
--- a/webapp/views/views.py
+++ b/webapp/views/views.py
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 from views.utils import (format_cog, format_gene, format_ko, format_locus,
                          format_orthogroup, format_pfam,
                          genomic_region_df_to_js, locusx_genomic_region,
-                         my_locals, page2title, to_s)
+                         make_div, my_locals, page2title, to_s)
 
 
 def id_generator(size=6, chars=string.ascii_uppercase + string.ascii_lowercase + string.digits):