JavaScript documentation look-up

• Hover the mouse over the necessary symbol in the editor.

• Place the caret at the symbol and press Ctrl+Q or select View | Quick Documentation from the main menu.

  Press Ctrl+Q again to open this documentation in the Documentation tool window.

• Click in the popup to change the font size, display the quick documentation toolbar, or go to the source code.

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To toggle the focus of the Quick Documentation popup and the Documentation Tool Window, press Ctrl+Q sequentially.

With the default settings, pressing Ctrl+Q (View | Quick Documentation) opens quick documentation in a popup. You can change the settings to view documentation in the tool window.

• In the quick documentation popup, click and disable the Show Documentation Popup First option.

• In the Documentation tool window, click the icon on the tool window toolbar and disable the Show Documentation Popup First option.

• In the Documentation popup Ctrl+Q, click the link at the bottom:

  

• Press Shift+F1 or select View | External Documentation from the main menu.

1. Download the required library or framework, configure it as an external JavaScript library, and specify the link to its external documentation, see Configuring a custom third-party JavaScript library for details.

2. Position the caret at the symbol and press Shift+F1 or choose View | External Documentation from the main menu.

• In a package.json file or in a require or import statement, position the caret at the name of the package and press Ctrl+Q

  

• To open the documentation on the npm official website in the browser, press Shift+F1.