To view the documentation in a tool window with more controls, pin the Documentation popup. WebStorm shows you quick documentation for it in the Documentation popup.Īlternatively, enable automatic documentation look-up as described in Configuring completion settings. View reference for the selected suggestionįor quick documentation look-up, select an item in the suggestion list and press Ctrl+Q. Use specific language and context-dependent keys to insert the selected completion suggestion, see Configuring completion settings for details. Use Ctrl+Shift+Enter to make the current code construct syntactically correct (balance parentheses, add missing braces and semicolons, and so on). Press Tab to replace the characters to the right from the caret. Press Enter or double-click the relevant list item to insert it to the left of the caret. WebStorm shows the suggestions that include the typed characters in any positions.įor CamelCase or snake_case names, WebStorm automatically recognizes and matches the initial letters only. To narrow down the suggestions list, type any part of the expected name or keyword (even characters from somewhere in the middle are accepted) or invoke code completion after a dot separator. To get more suggestions, press Ctrl+Space for the second time (or press Ctrl+Alt+Space). If automatic completion is disabled, press Ctrl+Space or choose Code | Code Completion | Basic from the main menu. By default, WebStorm displays the code completion popup automatically as you type. īasic completion is also available for a non-English keyboard layout.

When you invoke code completion, WebStorm analyses the context and suggests the choices that are reachable from the current caret position (suggestions also include Live templates). Basic completionīasic code completion helps you complete the names of classes, methods, fields, and keywords within the visibility scope. This section covers various techniques of context-aware code completion that allow you to speed up your coding process. In most cases all you need is to add the required files to your project, see Configuring JavaScript Libraries for details. Additional information from JSDoc comments, TypeScript type definitions, and so on can also significantly improve completion.Ĭompletion also works for symbols from third-party code. To show you completion suggestions, WebStorm goes through the project files with the source code and adds classes, methods, functions, and variables defined in them to a special internal index. Code completion is one of the essential features of the WebStorm editor.

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