Index of menu items

Use the commands from this group to create new projects, folders, files of various types, and scratch files.

• Project: Use this command to create a new project.

• File/ <file type> file: Use these commands to create a new files in a project. The commands are available depending on the current context.

• Scratch File (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Insert): Choose this command to create a new scratch file.

• Directory: Use this command to create a new folder. The command is available depending on the current context.

Use this command to open the specified directory, or an existing WebStorm project. A directory that contains a project is marked with icon.

Refer to the section Opening, Reopening, and Closing Projects.

This command is duplicated with on the main toolbar.

Use this command to close the current project. See Opening multiple projects and Closing projects for details.

Use this command to change the project and IDE configurations in the Settings/Preferences dialog. See also the section Configuring the IDE.

This command is duplicated with icon on the main toolbar.

This command in available on Windows/Linux. On Mac OS it appears on the WebStorm menu and has the name Preferences.

• File Encoding: Use this command to change encoding of an individual file.

• Associate with File Type: use this menu item to create a new file type association, learn more from Set file type associations.

• Make File Read-Only/ Make File Writable: Use these toggle commands to change read-only status of the file that is selected in the Project tool window or is opened in the currently active editor tab. If a file is made read-only, it is marked with , and is not available for editing.

  You can also toggle read-only attribute of a file in the Status bar.

• Line Separators: Use this command to select the desired line separator style. Refer to the section Configuring line separators.

Choose this command to save all changes, when editing is over.

This command is duplicated with icon on the main toolbar.

Choose this command to check the WebStorm caches and bring them up-to-date by keeping in sync with external changes.

This command is duplicated with icon on the main toolbar.

• Import Settings...: Choose this command to import settings from an archive.

• Export Settings...: Choose this command to export settings to an archive.

• Sync Settings to JetBrains Account: Choose this command to synchronize the settings across all IDE installations where you log in with your JetBrains account.

• Settings Repository... Choose this command to invoke the Settings Repository dialog.

• Settings for New Projects...: See Default settings for new projects for details.

• Run Configuration Templates for New Projects: See Run/debug configuration templates for details.

• Files or Selection to HTML: Use this command results to save selected files in HTML format.

Use this command to add the selected files to the list of Favorites. Click the right arrow to select the list of favorites you want to be modified.

Refer to the description of the Favorites tool window.

Use this mode if you are working with a laptop. If Power-Save mode is on, then the background processes are turned off, to minimize the power consumption.

You can also turn this mode on or off by clicking in the Status bar.

This command in available on Windows/Linux. On MacOS it appears on the WebStorm menu and has the name Quit WebStorm.

Use this command to roll actions back.

This command is duplicated with icon on the main toolbar.

Use this command to repeat the last actions.

This command is duplicated with icon on the main toolbar.

Choose this command to take the selected characters to the clipboard and delete them. Refer to the section Select code constructs.

This command is duplicated with icon on the main toolbar.

Use the commands from this group to place strings, characters, paths, etc. to the clipboard.

• Copy: (Ctrl+C): Choose this command to take the selected characters to the clipboard. Refer to the section Cutting, Copying, and Pasting.

  This command is duplicated with icon on the main toolbar.

• Copy Path (Ctrl+Shift+C): Choose this command to take the path to the selected symbol to the clipboard. Refer to the section Cutting, Copying, and Pasting.

• Copy as Plain Text (Ctrl+Shift+C): Choose this command to take the selected fragment to the clipboard without formatting. Refer to the section Settings/Preferences | Editor | General.

• Copy Relative Path (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+C): Choose this command to take a reference to a symbol to the clipboard. Refer to the section Cutting, Copying, and Pasting.

• Copy Reference (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+C): Choose this command to take a reference to a symbol to the clipboard.

Use the commands from this group to insert the contents of the clipboard in various modes.

• Paste (Ctrl+V): Choose this command to place the latest entry from the Clipboard at the insertion point. Refer to the section Cutting, Copying, and Pasting.

  This command is duplicated with the icon on the main toolbar.

• Paste from History (Ctrl+Shift+V): Choose this command to place at the insertion point the selected entry from the Clipboard. Refer to the section Cutting, Copying, and Pasting.

• Paste without Formatting (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+V): Choose this command to place the last entry from the Clipboard at the insertion point as plain text.

Point to this node to reveal the sub-menu of search commands:

• Find/Replace (Ctrl+F/ Ctrl+R): Find or replace text in a current file.

  These commands are duplicated by and icons on the main toolbar.

• Find Next Occurrence/ Find Previous Occurrence (F3/ Shift+F3): Use these commands to navigate through the search results in a file, see Search for a target within a file for details.

• Next Occurrence of the Word at Caret (Ctrl+F3): Use this command to jump to the next occurrence of the word where the caret rests, see Search for a target within a file for details.

• Select All Occurrences (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+J): Use this command to find and select all the occurrences of an item.

• Add Selection for Next Occurrence (Alt+J): Use this command to select the next occurrence of an item.

• Find in Files/ Replace in Path (Ctrl+Shift+F/ Ctrl+Shift+R): Use these commands to search for, and replace a text fragment in a whole project. Refer to the section Finding and Replacing text in Project.

• Search/Replace Structurally: Use these commands to perform structural search or replace. Refer to the section Structural search and replace for details.

• Find by XPath... (Ctrl+Alt+X, F): Use this command to find occurrences of certain XPath expressions in all XML files in a specific scope. Refer to XPath and XSLT support

Use the commands from this group to search for the usages of a symbol across the entire current project or in the current file as well as navigate among detected usages and configure the search settings.

• Find Usages (Alt+F7): Use this command to search for the usages of a symbol across an entire project, see Search for usages for details.

• Find Usages Settings (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F7): Use this command to search for the usages of a symbol across an entire project, after setting the desired search options, see Search for usages for details.

• Show Usages (Ctrl+Alt+F7): Use this command to bring up a list of the usages of a symbol across the whole project, see Search for usages for details.

• Find Usages in a File (Ctrl+F7): Select this command to have all the usages of the symbol you are searching in the current file highlighted, see Search for a target within a file for details.

• Highlight Usages in a File (Ctrl+Shift+F7): Use this command to visualize all usages of a symbol in the current file.

• Recent Find Usages (Ctrl+E: Choose this command to view the recent search results, see Search for usages for details.

Point to this node to reveal the list of nested check commands. These commands apply to the active editor and is only available when it exists.

Use this command to find an item in the project or outside of it by its name. You can search for files, actions, classes, symbols, settings, and UI elements from a single entry point. Learn more from Search for a target by name (Search everywhere).

Choose this command to run the current with the corresponding temporary run/debug configuration.

This command is duplicated with icon on the main toolbar.

Choose this command to debug the current with the corresponding temporary run/debug configuration.

This command is duplicated with icon on the main toolbar.

Choose this command to run with coverage the current script with the corresponding temporary run/debug configuration.

This command is duplicated with icon on the main toolbar.

Debugging Actions

Use the commands from this group to invoke actions during a debugging session.

• Stop (Ctrl+F2): Choose this command to terminate execution of a run/debug configuration. This command is duplicated with icon in the toolboxes of the Run and Debug tool windows.

• Stepping Commands: These commands become enabled with the debugger session on. Refer to the section Step through the program. See also descriptions of the stepping toolbar buttons in the Debug tool window reference.

• Pause Program: Choose this command to pause output of the current run or debug session. This command is duplicated with icon in the toolboxes of the Run and Debug tool windows.

  This action is not available for Run/Debug Configuration: Attach to Node.js/Chrome.

• Resume Program (F9): Choose this command to resume the debugger session with the selected run/debug configuration. This command is duplicated with icon in the toolbox of the Debug tool windows.

• Evaluate Expression (Alt+F8): Choose this command to evaluate expression during a debug session.

• Quick Evaluate Expression (Ctrl+Alt+F8): Choose this command to perform quick evaluation of an expression in the editor during a debug session.

• Show Execution Point (Alt+F10): Choose this command to show execution point during a debug session.

Point to this node to reveal the sub-menu of the browse commands, specific for the supported version control systems. With no version control integration enabled, it is possible to browse Subversion and Git repositories that are not associated with the currently opened project.

• Browse Git Repository Log: choose this option to view the log for a local Git repository that is associated with another project. When you select the relevant repository in the Select Path dialog, WebStorm adds a new Log tab to the Version Control tool window and shows the log for the selected repository. The name of the project associated with the selected repository is displayed in the tab title, when you hover the mouse overdialog the full path to the repository is shown in a tooltip.

• Browse Subversion Repository: when you choose this option WebStorm opens the SVN Repositories tool window where you can view, add, and edit location of SVN repositories.

Choose this command to reveal the sub-menu of commands, related to the editor tabs. Refer to the section Editor tabs.

Note that these commands can also be found from the context menu of an editor tab.

Choose this command to show an arbitrary tip.

Choose this command to report your overall impression of WebStorm to the support service.

Choose this command to find WebStorm's log.

Choose this command to open the custom file idea.properties, located under the user home. If this file does not exist, WebStorm suggests to create it.

Refer to the section Advanced configuration for details.

Choose this command to open the custom file .vmoptions, located under the user home. If this file does not exist, WebStorm suggests to create it.

Refer to the section Advanced configuration for details.

Choose this command to change logging level for a category. Choosing this command leads to opening the Custom Debug Log Configuration dialog, where you have to type the log categories names, separated with new lines.

Choose this command to obtain information about the current version, and the availability of newer versions of WebStorm. Refer to Update WebStorm.

This command in available on Windows/Linux. On macOS it appears on the WebStorm menu.

Choose this command to obtain information about the current version of WebStorm, current build, and so on. Press Escape to close the popup window.

This command in available on Windows/Linux. On macOS it appears on the WebStorm menu.