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Incorrect formatting

Reports formatting issues that appear if your code doesn't follow your project's code style settings.

This inspection is not compatible with languages that require third-party formatters for code formatting, for example, Go or C with CLangFormat enabled.

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.

IncorrectFormatting
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

Inspection ID: IncorrectFormatting

Inspection options

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

Report once per file

Option ID:

reportPerFile

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 IncorrectFormatting

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