IntelliJ does not show 'Class' when we right click and select 'New'

Question

We\'re creating a new project in IntelliJ and must have something wrong because when we right click on a directory, select New and then get the context menu, Java b

Answer 1

Had this issue too. Invalidating Caches/Restart did the trick for me. Please upvote so the the IntelliJ folks take this more seriously. This gives the IDE a terrible UI/UX experience.

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-203100

Answer 2

Another possible solution is that the project name is not acceptable. For example, creating a project with spaces in the name does not block the project creation but the proper sources are not marked and when those are marked manually, I still was unable to create classes. Recreating the project with hyphens (-) instead of spaces corrected the problem for me.