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Unnecessary block statement

Reports a block statement that is not used as the body of if, for, while, do, with, or try statements, or as the body of a function declaration. Starting from ECMAScript 6, JavaScript blocks introduce new scopes for let and const variables, but still free-standing block statements may be confusing and result in subtle bugs when used with var variables.

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.

BlockStatementJS
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

Inspection ID: BlockStatementJS

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection BlockStatementJS

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Last modified: 18 September 2025