How to see JavaDoc in IntelliJ IDEA?

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Eugene picture Eugene · Jun 15, 2012 · Viewed 284.2k times · Source

I just switched from Eclipse to IntelliJ. IntelliJ lacks one feature from Eclipse - when you put your mouse over a method, Eclipse shows javadoc info. I think the way to show it is to use a shortcut - command+J, but when I click it, I get something wrong as on the screen shot below. Please advise me on how I can quickly get javadoc information. I need to at least know what type a method returns.

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Answer

CrazyCoder picture CrazyCoder · Jun 15, 2012

Use View | Quick Documentation or the corresponding keyboard shortcut (by default: Ctrl+Q on Windows/Linux and Ctrl+J on macOS or F1 in the recent IDE versions). See the documentation for more information.

It's also possible to enable automatic JavaDoc popup on explicit (invoked by a shortcut) code completion in Settings | Editor | General | Code completion (Autopopup documentation):

autopopup documentation

Yet another way to see the quick doc is on mouse move:

on mouse move

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