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Registrant Name dei_EntityRegistrantName EQ ADVISORS TRUST
Prospectus Date rr_ProspectusDate May 01, 2020
EQ/JPMorgan Value Opportunities Portfolio  
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Risk/Return [Heading] rr_RiskReturnHeading EQ/JPMorgan Value Opportunities Portfolio – Class IA, IB and K Shares
Objective [Heading] rr_ObjectiveHeading Investment Objective:
Objective, Primary [Text Block] rr_ObjectivePrimaryTextBlock Seeks to achieve long-term capital appreciation.
Expense [Heading] rr_ExpenseHeading FEES AND EXPENSES OF THE PORTFOLIO
Expense Narrative [Text Block] rr_ExpenseNarrativeTextBlock The following table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Portfolio. The table below does not reflect any fees and expenses associated with variable life insurance contracts and variable annuity certificates and contracts (“Contracts”), which would increase overall fees and expenses. See the Contract prospectus for a description of those fees and expenses.
Shareholder Fees Caption [Text] rr_ShareholderFeesCaption Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)
Operating Expenses Caption [Text] rr_OperatingExpensesCaption Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Portfolio Turnover [Heading] rr_PortfolioTurnoverHeading PORTFOLIO TURNOVER
Portfolio Turnover [Text Block] rr_PortfolioTurnoverTextBlock The Portfolio pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the Example, affect the Portfolio’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Portfolio’s portfolio turnover rate was 153% of the average value of the Portfolio.
Portfolio Turnover, Rate rr_PortfolioTurnoverRate 153.00%
Expense Example [Heading] rr_ExpenseExampleHeading Example
Expense Example Narrative [Text Block] rr_ExpenseExampleNarrativeTextBlock This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Portfolio with the cost of investing in other portfolios. The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Portfolio for the periods indicated, that your investment has a 5% return each year, and that the Portfolio’s operating expenses remain the same. This Example does not reflect any Contract-related fees and expenses including redemption fees (if any) at the Contract level. If such fees and expenses were reflected, the total expenses would be higher. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions, whether you redeem or hold your shares, your costs would be:
Strategy [Heading] rr_StrategyHeading INVESTMENTS, RISKS, AND PERFORMANCE Principal Investment Strategy:
Strategy Narrative [Text Block] rr_StrategyNarrativeTextBlock Under normal circumstances, the Portfolio invests at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities of mid- and large-capitalization companies. For this Portfolio, issuers with market capitalization between $2 billion and $5 billion are considered mid-capitalization while those above $5 billion are considered large-capitalization. The Portfolio may invest up to 10% of its net assets in foreign securities.

The Sub-Adviser employs a value-oriented investment approach that seeks to identify attractive companies through fundamental research and discounted cash flow analysis. The Sub-Adviser seeks to identify relative value within sectors by combining company analysis of its research and portfolio management teams with market sentiment and macro-insights of the portfolio managers. The Sub-Adviser may sell a security for a variety of reasons, including to invest in a company believed to offer superior investment opportunities.

The Portfolio may invest its uninvested cash in U.S. Treasury securities.
Risk [Heading] rr_RiskHeading Principal Risks:
Risk Narrative [Text Block] rr_RiskNarrativeTextBlock An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Portfolio. There can be no assurance that the Portfolio will achieve its investment objective.

The following risks can negatively affect the Portfolio’s performance. The most significant risks are listed first, followed by additional risks in alphabetical order.

Investment Style Risk: The Portfolio may use a particular style or set of styles — in this case, a “value” style — to select investments. A particular style may be out of favor or may not produce the best results over short or longer time periods. Value stocks are subject to the risks that, notwithstanding that a stock is selling at a discount to its perceived true worth, the stock’s intrinsic value may never be fully recognized or realized by the market, or its price may go down. In addition, there is the risk that a stock judged to be undervalued may actually have been appropriately priced at the time of investment.

Mid-Cap Company Risk: Mid-cap companies carry additional risks because the operating histories of these companies tend to be more limited, their earnings and revenues less predictable (and some companies may be experiencing significant losses), and their share prices more volatile than those of larger, more established companies, all of which can negatively affect their value.

Sector Risk: From time to time, based on market or economic conditions, the Portfolio may have significant positions in one or more sectors of the market. To the extent the Portfolio invests more heavily in particular sectors, its performance will be especially sensitive to developments that significantly affect those sectors. Individual sectors may be more volatile, and may perform differently, than the broader market. The industries that constitute a sector may all react in the same way to economic, political or regulatory events.

Equity Risk: In general, the values of stocks and other equity securities fluctuate, and sometimes widely fluctuate, in response to changes in a company’s financial condition as well as general market, economic and political conditions and other factors.

Large-Cap Company Risk: Larger more established companies may be unable to respond quickly to new competitive challenges such as changes in technology and consumer tastes, which may lead to a decline in their market price. Many larger companies also may not be able to attain the high growth rate of successful smaller companies, especially during extended periods of economic expansion.

Portfolio Turnover Risk: High portfolio turnover (generally, turnover in excess of 100% in any given fiscal year) may result in increased transaction costs to the Portfolio, which may result in higher fund expenses and lower total return.

Foreign Securities Risk: Investments in foreign securities involve risks in addition to those associated with investments in U.S. securities. Foreign markets may be less liquid, more volatile and subject to less government supervision and regulation than U.S. markets, and it may take more time to clear and settle trades involving foreign securities, which could negatively impact the Portfolio’s investments and cause it to lose money. Security values also may be negatively affected by changes in the exchange rates between the U.S. dollar and foreign currencies. Differences between U.S. and foreign legal, political and economic systems, regulatory regimes and market practices, as well as trade barriers and other protectionist trade policies (including those of the U.S.), governmental instability, or other political or economic actions, also may adversely impact security values. World markets, or those in a particular region, may all react in similar fashion to important economic or political developments. Events and evolving conditions in certain economies or markets may alter the risks associated with investments tied to countries or regions that historically were perceived as comparatively stable and make such investments riskier and more volatile. Regardless of where a company is organized or its stock is traded, its performance may be significantly affected by events in regions from which it derives its profits or in which it conducts significant operations.
Currency Risk: Investments that are denominated in or that provide exposure to foreign currencies are subject to the risk that those currencies will decline in value relative to the U.S. dollar. Any such decline may erode or reverse any potential gains from an investment in securities denominated in foreign currency or may widen existing loss. In the case of hedging positions, there is the risk that the U.S. dollar will decline in value relative to the currency being hedged. Currency rates may fluctuate significantly over short periods of time.
Government Securities Risk: Not all obligations of the U.S. government, its agencies and instrumentalities are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government. Some obligations are backed only by the credit of the issuing agency or instrumentality, and, in some cases, there may be some risk of default by the issuer. Any guarantee by the U.S. government or its agencies or instrumentalities of a security the Portfolio holds does not apply to the market value of the security or to shares of the Portfolio. A security backed by the U.S. Treasury or the full faith and credit of the U.S. government is guaranteed only as to the timely payment of interest and principal when held to maturity.

Market Risk: The Portfolio is subject to the risk that the securities markets will move down, sometimes rapidly and unpredictably, based on overall economic conditions and other factors, which may negatively affect Portfolio performance. Securities markets also may experience long periods of decline in value. Changes in the financial condition of a single issuer can impact a market as a whole. Geo-political risks, including terrorism, tensions or open conflict between nations, or political or economic dysfunction within some nations that are major players on the world stage, may lead to instability in world economies and markets, may lead to increased market volatility, and may have adverse long-term effects. Events such as natural disasters or pandemics, and governments’ reactions to such events, could cause uncertainty in the markets and may adversely affect the performance of the global economy. In addition, markets and market participants are increasingly reliant on information data systems. Inaccurate data, software or other technology malfunctions, programming inaccuracies, unauthorized use or access, and similar circumstances may impair the performance of these systems and may have an adverse impact upon a single issuer, a group of issuers, or the market at-large.

Portfolio Management Risk: The Portfolio is subject to the risk that strategies used by an investment manager and its securities selections fail to produce the intended results. An investment manager’s judgments or decisions about the quality, relative yield or value of, or market trends affecting, a particular security or issuer, industry, sector, region or market segment, or about the economy or interest rates, may be incorrect or otherwise may not produce the intended results, which may result in losses to the Portfolio. In addition, many processes used in Portfolio management, including security selection, rely, in whole or in part, on the use of various technologies. The Portfolio may suffer losses if there are imperfections, errors or limitations in the quantitative, analytic or other tools, resources, information and data used, or the analyses employed or relied on, by an investment manager, or if such tools, resources, information or data are used incorrectly, fail to produce the desired results, or otherwise do not work as intended. There can be no assurance that the use of these technologies will result in effective investment decisions for the Portfolio.
Risk Lose Money [Text] rr_RiskLoseMoney The value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, and you could lose money by investing in the Portfolio.
Risk Not Insured Depository Institution [Text] rr_RiskNotInsuredDepositoryInstitution An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
Bar Chart and Performance Table [Heading] rr_BarChartAndPerformanceTableHeading Risk/Return Bar Chart and Table
Performance Narrative [Text Block] rr_PerformanceNarrativeTextBlock The bar chart and table below provide some indication of the risks of investing in the Portfolio by showing changes in the Portfolio’s performance from year to year and by showing how the Portfolio’s average annual total returns for the past one, five and ten years (or since inception) through December 31, 2019 compared to the returns of a broad-based securities market index. The return of the broad-based securities market index (and any additional comparative index) shown in the right hand column below is the return of the index for the last 10 years or, if shorter, since the inception of the share class with the longest history. Past performance is not an indication of future performance.

The performance results do not reflect any Contract-related fees and expenses, which would reduce the performance results.
Performance Information Illustrates Variability of Returns [Text] rr_PerformanceInformationIllustratesVariabilityOfReturns The bar chart and table below provide some indication of the risks of investing in the Portfolio by showing changes in the Portfolio’s performance from year to year and by showing how the Portfolio’s average annual total returns for the past one, five and ten years (or since inception) through December 31, 2019 compared to the returns of a broad-based securities market index.
Performance Past Does Not Indicate Future [Text] rr_PerformancePastDoesNotIndicateFuture Past performance is not an indication of future performance.
Bar Chart [Heading] rr_BarChartHeading Calendar Year Annual Total Returns — Class IB
Bar Chart Closing [Text Block] rr_BarChartClosingTextBlock
Best quarter (% and time period)      Worst quarter (% and time period)
14.07% (2012 1st Quarter)      –18.98% (2011 3rd Quarter)
Performance Table Heading rr_PerformanceTableHeading Average Annual Total Returns
EQ/JPMorgan Value Opportunities Portfolio | Class IA Shares  
Risk/Return: rr_RiskReturnAbstract  
Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment) rr_ShareholderFeeOther
Management Fee rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets 0.60%
Distribution and/or Service Fees (12b-1 fees) rr_DistributionAndService12b1FeesOverAssets 0.25%
Other Expenses rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets 0.13%
Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses rr_ExpensesOverAssets 0.98%
1 Year rr_ExpenseExampleYear01 $ 100
3 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear03 312
5 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear05 542
10 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear10 1,201
1 Year rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear01 100
3 Years rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear03 312
5 Years rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear05 542
10 Years rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear10 $ 1,201
One Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 27.49%
Five Years rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05 8.56%
Ten Years rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10 11.26%
EQ/JPMorgan Value Opportunities Portfolio | Class IB Shares  
Risk/Return: rr_RiskReturnAbstract  
Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment) rr_ShareholderFeeOther
Management Fee rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets 0.60%
Distribution and/or Service Fees (12b-1 fees) rr_DistributionAndService12b1FeesOverAssets 0.25%
Other Expenses rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets 0.13%
Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses rr_ExpensesOverAssets 0.98%
1 Year rr_ExpenseExampleYear01 $ 100
3 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear03 312
5 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear05 542
10 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear10 1,201
1 Year rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear01 100
3 Years rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear03 312
5 Years rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear05 542
10 Years rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear10 $ 1,201
2010 rr_AnnualReturn2010 12.38%
2011 rr_AnnualReturn2011 (5.32%)
2012 rr_AnnualReturn2012 16.14%
2013 rr_AnnualReturn2013 35.77%
2014 rr_AnnualReturn2014 14.36%
2015 rr_AnnualReturn2015 (2.31%)
2016 rr_AnnualReturn2016 21.53%
2017 rr_AnnualReturn2017 17.72%
2018 rr_AnnualReturn2018 (15.39%)
2019 rr_AnnualReturn2019 27.55%
Highest Quarterly Return, Label rr_HighestQuarterlyReturnLabel Best quarter
Highest Quarterly Return, Date rr_BarChartHighestQuarterlyReturnDate Mar. 31, 2012
Highest Quarterly Return rr_BarChartHighestQuarterlyReturn 14.07%
Lowest Quarterly Return, Label rr_LowestQuarterlyReturnLabel Worst quarter
Lowest Quarterly Return, Date rr_BarChartLowestQuarterlyReturnDate Sep. 30, 2011
Lowest Quarterly Return rr_BarChartLowestQuarterlyReturn (18.98%)
One Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 27.55%
Five Years rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05 8.57%
Ten Years rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10 11.21%
EQ/JPMorgan Value Opportunities Portfolio | Class K Shares  
Risk/Return: rr_RiskReturnAbstract  
Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment) rr_ShareholderFeeOther
Management Fee rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets 0.60%
Distribution and/or Service Fees (12b-1 fees) rr_DistributionAndService12b1FeesOverAssets none
Other Expenses rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets 0.13%
Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses rr_ExpensesOverAssets 0.73%
1 Year rr_ExpenseExampleYear01 $ 75
3 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear03 233
5 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear05 406
10 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear10 906
1 Year rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear01 75
3 Years rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear03 233
5 Years rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear05 406
10 Years rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear10 $ 906
One Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 27.87%
Five Years rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05 8.84%
Since Inception rr_AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception 13.48%
Inception Date rr_AverageAnnualReturnInceptionDate Dec. 01, 2011
EQ/JPMorgan Value Opportunities Portfolio | Russell 1000® Value Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes)  
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One Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 26.54%
Five Years rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05 8.29%
Ten Years rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10 11.80%