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Statement with empty body

Reports if, while, do, for, and switch statements with empty bodies.

While occasionally intended, such code is confusing and is often the result of a typo.

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.

StatementWithEmptyBody
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 | Probable bugs

This inspection is disabled in JSP files.

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Statement with empty body inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Include statement bodies that are empty code blocks

Default value:

Selected
Comments count as content

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 StatementWithEmptyBody

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

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025