Can we make the search results links?

[Hannes Wallnoefer]

Hello David,

I looked into the issue. Your suggestion makes a lot of sense,  and it looks like the simple solution you propose would indeed work.

I’ve assigned the issue to myself and targeted it to JDK 26. Thanks for the reminder, and sorry for letting the request linger for such a long time!

Hannes


On 10.08.2025, at 02:49, David Alayachew <davidalayachew at gmail.com> wrote:

Hello @javadoc-dev at openjdk.org<mailto:javadoc-dev at openjdk.org>,

I am the original submitter of the following feature enhancement -- https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8284499.

Long story short, the feature enhancement is asking for the ability to open Javadoc search results in a new tab. Preferably through Ctrl+Click and/or Right-Click-Context-Menu.

I was looking at the source code for it, and I realized that we could achieve an 80/20 solution regarding my linked feature enhancement, simply by making the search results on the Javadoc search page links. As in, literal <a href> links.

- A link is Ctrl+clickable
- A link has the right click context menu, allowing you to make a new tab

It looks like the only code that would need to change besides making them links is making sure Ctrl+Click does not clash with the onclick behaviour. But that should be super trivial to implement.

Anyways, I wanted to hear opinions on it. Does the feature enhancement itself makes sense? And if so, would it be feasible/realistic to handle it with my idea above?

Thank you for your time.
David Alayachew


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