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Asked: 2026-05-10T13:56:22+00:00

I’m using Eclipse 3.4 and have configured the Java code formatter with all of

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I’m using Eclipse 3.4 and have configured the Java code formatter with all of the options on the Comments tab enabled. The problem is that when I format a document comment that contains:

* @see <a href='test.html'>test</a>

the code formatter inserts a space in the closing HTML, breaking it:

* @see <a href='test.html'>test< /a>

Why? How do I stop this happening?

This is not fixed by disabling any of the options on the Comments tab, such as Format HTML tags. The only work-around I found is to disable Javadoc formatting completely by disabling both the Enable Javadoc comment formatting and Enable block comment formatting options, which means I then have to format comment blocks manually.

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  1. I can only assume it’s a bug in Eclipse. It only happens with @see tags, it happens also for all 3 builtin code formatter settings.

    There are some interesting bugs reported already in the neighbourhood, but I couldn’t find this specific one. See for example a search for @see in the Eclipse Bugzilla.

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