How do you escape curly braces in javadoc inline tags, such as the {@code} tag

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Not so much an answer as a workaround, but if you replace {@code ...} with the old version <code>...</code> it will render curly braces how you expect.

<code>{person} == ${person}</code>

Unfortunately, this breaks angle brackets, so to the original question you need to escape these:

<code>&lt;custom:meatball color="&lt;%= Meatball.RED %&gt; nincompoop="${person}" /&gt;</code>

You can even cheat here by getting Notepad++ to do that for you, with the handy TextFX -> convert -> Encode HTML (&<>").

This does at least have the benefit that everything renders nicely both in the generated Javadoc and in Eclipse in the Javadoc view, which doesn't appear to understand } and friends.

Try using HTML escapes:

${person} == ${person}

bodunbodun solution works as it usually happens that you have newline as well in the javadocs. HTML escapes won't work if you want both { and newline

<pre>
{@code
<foo bar="}${bar}{@code"/>
<bar foo="}${foo}{@code"/>
}
</pre>

will give you

<foo bar="${bar}" />
<bar foo="${foo}" />

I had the same problem actually - none of propositions have worked for me (HTML escapes do not work for whatever reason). If that helps - try closing the {@code} before problematic symbol and reopen it after, like this:

{@code nincompoop="}${person}{@code" />}

This doesn't seem the solution, but it works, and does not break formatting if used carefully :)