Navigating to Declaration or Type Declaration of a Symbol
While editing your source code, you might need to navigate to the location where a particular named code reference (a symbol) has been first declared. command enables you to navigate back to the initial declaration of a symbol from any place in the source code, even if it is from inside another class, or comment.
Important!
- Applies to the symbols of source code, CSS, HTML or XML tags and attributes, DTD and schema elements and attributes, and references in comments.
- Does not apply to the primitive types.
To navigate to the declaration of a symbol
- Place the caret at the desired symbol in the editor.
- Do one of the following:
- On the main menu, choose .
- Press Ctrl+B.
- Click the middle mouse button.
- Keeping Ctrl
pressed, point to the symbol, and click, when it turns to a hyperlink. You can also see
declaration at the tooltip while keeping Ctrl
pressed.
To navigate to the type declaration of a symbol
- Place the caret at the desired symbol in the editor.
- Do one of the following:
- On the main menu, choose .
- Press Ctrl+Shift+B.
- Press the Ctrl+Shift keys and hover your mouse
pointer over the symbol. When the symbol turns to a hyperlink, click it without releasing
Ctrl+Shift keys.
The type declaration of the symbol opens in the editor. You can also see the declaration at
the tooltip while keeping
Ctrl+Shift pressed.
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Last modified: 20 April 2016