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Unused global symbol

Reports an unused globally accessible public function, variable, class, or property.

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.

JSUnusedGlobalSymbols
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 | Unused symbols

Inspection ID: JSUnusedGlobalSymbols

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Unused global symbol inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Report unused properties

Option ID:

myReportUnusedProperties

Default value:

Not selected
Report unused definitions

Option ID:

myReportUnusedDefinitions

Default value:

Not selected

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 JSUnusedGlobalSymbols

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