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Statement with empty body

Reports an if, while, for, or with statement with an empty body. Such statements often result from typos, and may cause confusion.

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.

StatementWithEmptyBodyJS
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 | Potentially confusing code constructs

Use the checkbox below to specify whether the statements with empty block statements as bodies should be reported.

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Statement with empty body inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Include statement bodies that are empty code blocks

Not selected

Last modified: 11 September 2024