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Unused selector

Reports a CSS class or an element IDs that appears in selectors but is not used in HTML.

Note that complete inspection results are available only when running it via Code | Inspect Code or Code | Analyze Code | Run Inspection by Name. Due to performance reasons, style sheet files are not inspected on the fly.

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.

CssUnusedSymbol
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 | CSS

Inspection ID: CssUnusedSymbol

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 CssUnusedSymbol

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