RFR: 8371896: Links in snippets can not be highlighted

Chen Liang liach at openjdk.org
Tue Nov 18 17:41:25 UTC 2025


On Mon, 17 Nov 2025 15:20:28 GMT, Hannes Wallnöfer <hannesw at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Please review a simple change to allow fragments of snippet content to act both as link and highlighted text. Previously, only the link was generated while the highlight was ignored. 
> 
> We also change snippet links to use the aequivalent of `{@linkplain}` instead of `{@link}` because the `<code>` element in `{@link}` markup is redundant in snippet content which is already inside a `<code>` element. `{@link}` also creates `PREVIEW` superscript flags which are likely to be disruptive in example code.

Marked as reviewed by liach (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28354#pullrequestreview-3479004497


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