User Interface Components

The IntelliJ Platform includes a large number of custom Swing components. Using those components in your plugins will ensure that your plugin looks and works consistently with the UI of the rest of the IDE, and can often reduce the code size compared to using the default Swing components. Use inspection Plugin DevKit | Code | Undesirable class usage to highlight replacement components provided by the platform.

Please refer to Writing Short and Clear in UI Guidelines on writing UI-related texts.

See UI Kit when using Figma to design UI.

The following components are particularly noteworthy:

• Menus and toolbars are built using Actions

• Tool Windows

• Dialogs

• Popups

• Notifications

• File and Class Choosers

• Editor Components

• List and Tree Controls

• Status Bar Widgets

• Tables (TableView) (TBD)

• Drag & Drop Helpers (TBD)

• Miscellaneous Swing Components

See also User Interface FAQ.