Suspicious indentation after control statement without braces

Reports suspicious indentation of statements after a control statement without braces.

Such indentation can make it look like the statement is inside the control statement, when in fact it will be executed unconditionally after the control statement.

Example:

  class Bar {
      void foo(int i) {
          if (i == 0)
              System.out.println("foo");
              System.out.println("bar"); // warning
          if (i == 1);
              System.out.println("great"); // warning
          if (i == 42)
              System.out.println("answer");
                  System.out.println("question"); // warning
      }
  }

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.

SuspiciousIndentAfterControlStatement

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

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 SuspiciousIndentAfterControlStatement

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

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025