Please add a tab to navigate to the tools and specs pages

[David Alayachew]

Hello Nizar,

Ty vm. Is there any deployed Javadocs for me to see the end results? What
you have linked to me sounds like it only does half of what I asked for,
but the Javadocs should be able to show me for sure.

On Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 10:11 AM Nizar Benalla <nizar.benalla at oracle.com>
wrote:

> Hello David,
>
> Thank you for the suggestion, this was fixed in JDK 26
> https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8294074.
>
> Cheers,
> Nizar
> ------------------------------
> *From:* javadoc-dev <javadoc-dev-retn at openjdk.org> on behalf of David
> Alayachew <davidalayachew at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Monday, November 10, 2025 11:30 AM
> *To:* javadoc-dev at openjdk.org <javadoc-dev at openjdk.org>
> *Subject:* Please add a tab to navigate to the tools and specs pages
>
> Hello @javadoc-dev at openjdk.org <javadoc-dev at openjdk.org> team,
>
> If I look up the documentation for the jar command in Java 25, I get this
> page.
>
> https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/25/docs/specs/man/jar.html
>
> On the top are 3 tabs, titled as follows.
>
> * API
> * Other Specifications
> * Tool Guides
>
> If I click API, it takes me to the main Javadoc page that we know.
> However, I have no way to navigate back to that page, other than to use my
> back button.
>
> Could we add the "Other Specifications" and "Tool Guides" tabs to the main
> Javadoc page? We could put a clean vertical divider between the group of
> normal Javadoc tabs (OVERVIEW/TREE/PREVIEW/etc) and this new group.
>
> Having that ability to navigate back and forth would help discoverability
> a lot. For example, clicking on the "Tool Guides" tab shows me a whole
> bunch of features I never knew about.
>
> Ideally, this is a super low effort feature request to implement. They
> even share the same url prefix, so very very little needs to be done here.
>
> Even if we don't go about making the change, could we at least create a
> ticket for it in JBS?
>
> Thank you for your time and consideration.
> David Alayachew
>
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