diff --git a/packages/common/src/location/location.ts b/packages/common/src/location/location.ts
index f850fdda4e..0edfa03484 100644
--- a/packages/common/src/location/location.ts
+++ b/packages/common/src/location/location.ts
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ export interface PopStateEvent {
  *
  * A service that applications can use to interact with a browser's URL.
  *
- * Depending on the {@link LocationStrategy} used, `Location` will either persist
+ * Depending on the `LocationStrategy` used, `Location` will either persist
  * to the URL's path or the URL's hash segment.
  *
  * @usageNotes
@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ export interface PopStateEvent {
  *
  * ### Example
  *
- * {@example common/location/ts/path_location_component.ts region='LocationComponent'}
+ * <code-example path='common/location/ts/path_location_component.ts'
+ * region='LocationComponent'></code-example>
  *
  * @publicApi
  */
diff --git a/packages/common/src/location/location_strategy.ts b/packages/common/src/location/location_strategy.ts
index 2cbf0de24e..7a37ce7af9 100644
--- a/packages/common/src/location/location_strategy.ts
+++ b/packages/common/src/location/location_strategy.ts
@@ -10,18 +10,17 @@ import {InjectionToken} from '@angular/core';
 import {LocationChangeListener} from './platform_location';
 
 /**
- * `LocationStrategy` is responsible for representing and reading route state
- * from the browser's URL. Angular provides two strategies:
- * {@link HashLocationStrategy} and {@link PathLocationStrategy}.
+ * Enables the `Location` service to read route state from the browser's URL.
+ * Angular provides two strategies:
+ * `HashLocationStrategy` and `PathLocationStrategy`.
  *
- * This is used under the hood of the {@link Location} service.
- *
- * Applications should use the {@link Router} or {@link Location} services to
+ * Applications should use the `Router` or `Location` services to
  * interact with application route state.
  *
- * For instance, {@link HashLocationStrategy} produces URLs like
- * `http://example.com#/foo`, and {@link PathLocationStrategy} produces
- * `http://example.com/foo` as an equivalent URL.
+ * For instance, `HashLocationStrategy` produces URLs like
+ * <code class="no-auto-link">http://example.com#/foo</code>,
+ * and `PathLocationStrategy` produces
+ * <code class="no-auto-link">http://example.com/foo</code> as an equivalent URL.
  *
  * See these two classes for more.
  *