On Tue, 25 Nov 2025 14:15:50 GMT, Hannes Wallnöfer <[email protected]> wrote:

> Please review a change to use the same title attribute (tooltip) in external 
> class links as in internal ones. 
> 
> Currently, links to external types and their members always use `class or 
> interface in x.y.z` as tooltip. This is unecessarily generic for type links, 
> because we actually know whether it is a class or an interface, and already 
> have the correct tooltip message. For member links, it is misleading because 
> the link target is not the class or interface.
> 
> With this change, external links use the same tooltip as internal ones. Links 
> to top-level types specify whether it is a class or interface. Links to 
> methods use the method signature as tooltip if the link label only contains 
> the method name. For other members, the no tooltip is set. 
> 
> I'm also removing the `doclet.Href_Class_Or_Interface_Title` message because 
> it is not used anymore.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 0a3809f0
Author:    Hannes Wallnöfer <[email protected]>
URL:       
https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/0a3809f0be94c92c2c46f00fe5ff981afdd55cf0
Stats:     191 lines in 23 files changed: 6 ins; 20 del; 165 mod

8369531: Wrong tooltip used in external class links

Reviewed-by: liach

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28491

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