JDK-8187793 : Remove HTML4 support from javadoc
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Component: tools
  • Sub-Component: javadoc(tool)
  • Priority: P3
  • Status: Resolved
  • Resolution: Duplicate
  • Submitted: 2017-09-21
  • Updated: 2020-11-13
  • Resolved: 2019-02-13
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Related Reports
Blocks :  
JDK-8182765 - HTML5 must be the default javadoc codegen mode in the near future
Duplicate :  
JDK-8215577 - Remove javadoc support for HTML 4.
Description
Javadoc support for HTML4 should be removed. The generated javadoc pages should only be HTML5 compliant.
Comments
This has compatibility issues for the doc comments in user code, since it implies that the doc comments must be compatible with HTML5 ... e.g. no <font> and similar tags for style, no summary attribute on tables, etc. As such, we need to give due warning ahead of time that HTML 4 support will be removed in a future release. For now, I suggest doing that work at the same time as JDK-8182765.
21-09-2017