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### What?
Adds documentation for handling sticky headers with Next.js navigation
using `scroll-padding-top`.

### Why?
Next.js's auto-scroll behavior explicitly skips sticky and fixed
positioned elements. This can cause content to appear behind sticky
headers when navigating to a hash fragment or using the `scroll` prop on
`Link`. This documentation provides a web-standards solution using CSS
`scroll-padding-top` to correctly position the scroll target.

### How?
- Added a new "Handling sticky headers with `scroll-padding-top`"
subsection to the `Link` component API reference
(`docs/01-app/03-api-reference/02-components/link.mdx`) under the
`scroll` prop.
- Added a new "Scrolling with sticky headers" example to the "Linking
and Navigating" guide
(`docs/01-app/01-getting-started/04-linking-and-navigating.mdx`).

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### What?
Small improvements to the Forms guide for consistency and clarity.

### Why?
Some examples didn’t fully match the recommendations in the guide (e.g.
HTML validation), and there was a minor inconsistency between
`event.target` and `event.currentTarget`. This update keeps the examples
aligned and easier to follow.

### How?
- Added `required` to relevant input examples  
- Standardized usage of `event.currentTarget`  
- Made minor wording refinements for clarity

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This PR fixes a typo in the docs about the manifest.js file

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### What?

Add links to the helpful [Status Codes section of the `loading.js` docs
page](https://nextjs.org/docs/app/api-reference/file-conventions/loading#status-codes)
from the
[`not-found.js`](https://nextjs.org/docs/app/api-reference/file-conventions/not-found)
and
[`notFound()`](https://nextjs.org/docs/app/api-reference/functions/not-found)
docs pages

### Why?

To avoid misunderstandings that the streamed HTTP 200 responses are
negatively affecting SEO, as posited in such articles:

-
https://matthewmorek.com/journal/how-to-fix-next-js-notfound-returning-200-ok-with-app-router-and-suspense

It is mentioned in the `loading.js` docs as well as @ztanner's comment
here:

- #45801 (comment)

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### How?

Add some small edits

### Alternatives considered

1. Duplicating the Status Codes content to the `not-found.js` and
`notFound()` pages so it's accessible in all 3 places
   1. Copying and pasting the whole section
2. Making it a "partial" or "include" which can be used in both places
2. Moving the "Status Codes" (and maybe "SEO") section(s) out of the
`loading.js` page into a separate docs page

But both of those options require a bit more work and thinking.

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…age (#90386)

### What?

Updates the
[Deploying](https://nextjs.org/docs/app/getting-started/deploying) page
Docker section to document the new and updated Docker examples and add
description to old ones.

### Why?

The Docker examples were added/updated in
[#87069](#87069). The Deploying
page still only listed the generic "Docker" and "Docker
Multi-Environment" templates, so the new **Docker Standalone** and
**Docker Export** examples were not discoverable from the docs.

### How?

- Add **Docker Standalone** template linking to `examples/with-docker`
(`output: "standalone"` for minimal container images).
- Add **Docker Export** template linking to
`examples/with-docker-export-output` (`output: "export"` for static HTML
in a container).
- Order templates as: Docker Standalone, Docker Export, then Docker
Multi-Environment.

---

**Related:** This PR follows up on the merged [PR
#87069](#87069) (Docker examples
for standalone and export output). It updates the docs so the Deploying
page links to those examples.

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… options (#90246)

This proposal adds Hostinger Web Apps Hosting as one additional
deployment option in existing deployment documentation.

- Keeps language provider-neutral
- No runtime or code behavior changes
- Keeps current structure and recommendations intact

Link used: https://github.com/hostinger/deploy-nextjs

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### What?

Fix two bugs in the `useReportWebVitals` API reference docs:

1. `navigationType` value `"back_forward"` → `"back-forward"`: the
`web-vitals`
library intentionally renames this value to use a hyphen for
consistency.
2. Variable name mismatch in `handleCustomMetrics` example: parameter
was named
`metrics` (plural) but the function body referenced `metric.name`
(singular),
   causing a `ReferenceError`.

### Why?

The `navigationType` description reflected the raw
`PerformanceNavigationTiming`
API value (`"back_forward"`), not the actual value emitted by the
`web-vitals`
library (`"back-forward"`), which `useReportWebVitals` is built on top
of
Ref: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/web-vitals?tab=readme-ov-file#types

The variable name mismatch in the code example would cause a
`ReferenceError`
if copied as-is.

### How?

- Updated `navigationType` description to use `"back-forward"`.
- Renamed parameter `metrics` → `metric` in the `handleCustomMetrics`
example

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