HTML problems in Javadoc (DocLint)

Reports the same HTML issues in the Javadoc comments that have been reported by DocLint since Java 8.

The inspection detects the following issues:

Self-closed, unclosed, unknown, misplaced, or empty tag
Unknown or wrong attribute
Misplaced text

Example:

/**
 * Unknown tag: List<String>
 * Unclosed tag: error</b>
 * Misplaced text or tag: <ul><li>one</li>, <li>two</li></ul>
 * Wrong or empty attribute: <a href=""></a>
 * Self-closed tag: <br/>
 * ...
 */
void sample(){ }

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.

JavadocHtmlLint

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 | Java | Javadoc

Inspection ID: JavadocHtmlLint

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 JavadocHtmlLint

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

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3, Qodana for JVM 2025.3,

Last modified: 03 December 2025