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TODO comment

Reports TODO comments in your code.

You can configure the format for TODO comments in Settings | Editor | TODO.

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.

TodoComment
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 | General

Enable the Only warn on TODO comments without any details option to only warn on empty TODO comments, that don't provide any description on the task that should be done. Disable to report all TODO comments.

Inspection ID: TodoComment

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the TODO comment inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Only warn on TODO comments without any details

Option ID:

onlyWarnOnEmpty

Default value:

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 TodoComment

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