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Nested function

Reports a function nested inside another function. Although JavaScript allows functions to be nested, such constructs may be confusing.

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.

NestedFunctionJS
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 | Potentially confusing code constructs

Use the checkbox below to ignore anonymous nested functions.

Inspection ID: NestedFunctionJS

Inspection options

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

Include anonymous functions

Option ID:

m_includeAnonymousFunctions

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 NestedFunctionJS

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