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It may sound like a stupid question, but why do you need to know where you are?

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Damn, you went the extra mile 😄

If it means that much to you, I will add it.

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Is this an issue?

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I can only speak for myself, but it's definitely easier for me to find where I am by such indicator rather than assuming it's this page by a header in given page, not speaking of a scenarios when we have multiple tabs with content in various positions.

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Had a quick look at Spring, Quarkus, Micronaut, and Vertx, and only Micronaut does this. Personally I think it's an anti-pattern. I think I'll skip it.

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Tbh, I think that Quarkus & Vertx docs are quite poor. Spring is inconsistent, and it depends on the page, e.g. the academy redirects to https://spring.academy/guides that handles it properly. Micronaut supports that across all main pages & associated subpages as far as I see.

I still would like to see that, as I think it's a standard across various webpages (and more popular ones, crafted by specialists in design/ui/frontend, not backend developers that needed docs for their project). I'd say the anti-pattern is to actually not do this. All popular services I know does this:

Or frontend related resources:

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I have to admit that jQuery does not highlight selected menu, so here's the point for you 😛 Anyway, I believe these companies are far more experienced & competent in making user-friendly/accessible interfaces, so I still think it's worth to reconsider that enhancement.

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