RFR: 8209914: javadoc search sometimes generates bad URIs

Hannes Wallnöfer hannes.wallnoefer at oracle.com
Wed Sep 5 07:55:14 UTC 2018


Please review: 

Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8209914
Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~hannesw/8209914/webrev.00/ 
Generated docs: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~hannesw/8209914/api/

The problem can actually be reproduced consistently on all browsers I tried. It occurs if:

  - the link is an anchor on the current page 
  - the link is followed via mouse click (as opposed to hitting the enter key) 
  - the mouse is clicked on the text of the entry (not the blank space to the right of the text)

The solution is to remove the <a href="#"> element from search suggestions that interfere with the selected target anchor under above conditions.

Thanks,
Hannes


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