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Inaccurate platform detection

Reports a common JavaScript pattern for detecting the browser or operating system in which the script is run. In addition to pointing out non-portable constructs, these platform detection patterns are often incomplete and easily fooled. For most cases, detection of individual environment features is preferable to attempting to detect the entire platform.

Patterns detected include:

  • document.all

  • document.layers

  • navigator.userAgent

  • navigator.oscpu

  • navigator.appName

  • navigator.appCodeName

  • navigator.platform

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

PlatformDetectionJS
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | JavaScript and TypeScript | DOM issues

Availability

By default bundled with

CLion 2024.1, GoLand 2024.1, IntelliJ IDEA 2024.1, JetBrains Rider 2023.3, PhpStorm 2024.1, PyCharm 2024.1, Qodana for .NET 2023.3, Qodana for Go 2024.1, Qodana for JS 2024.1, Qodana for JVM 2024.1, Qodana for PHP 2024.1, Qodana for Ruby 2024.1, RubyMine 2024.1, WebStorm 2024.1

Can be installed with plugin

JavaScript and TypeScript, 241.18072

Last modified: 18 June 2024