react-doctor/ink-no-dom-host-elements
DOM element used in an Ink tree
- Category: Bugs
- Severity: error
- Source:
oxlint-plugin-react-doctor - Framework: global
- Enabled when: Ink >= 3.0.0
- Tags: ink
- Default: Enabled
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Confirm the reported code matches react-doctor/ink-no-dom-host-elements. Compare it with the Before example and verify the same API, framework, and execution context. Treat it as a false positive only when one of those conditions differs.
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The corrected pattern shows a focused way to address the diagnostic.
Reported pattern
import { Box } from "ink";
const App = () => (
<Box>
<div />
</Box>
);Corrected pattern
import { Box } from "ink";
const App = () => (
<Box>
<Box />
</Box>
);How to fix
Use the corrected pattern as a reference. Preserve behavior that the rule does not require you to change.
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Fix every confirmed
Reference transformation:Before:react-doctor/ink-no-dom-host-elements diagnostic in the current repository.
Required change:
- Use Ink primitives such as <Box> and <Text> instead of DOM host elements.import { Box } from "ink";
const App = () => (
<Box>
<div />
</Box>
);import { Box } from "ink";
const App = () => (
<Box>
<Box />
</Box>
);Constraints:
- Confirm the reported code matches the Before pattern.
- Make the smallest change that fixes the root cause.
- Preserve behavior and interfaces unrelated to this diagnostic.
- Reuse existing project components, utilities, and conventions.
- Do not introduce render-phase side effects, render-phase state updates, or Hooks rule violations.
- Adapt identifiers and framework details instead of copying blindly.
- Do not disable the rule or suppress matching code.
- Confirm this rule is enabled for the project:
Ink >= 3.0.0.
Verification:
- Run focused tests for the changed behavior.
- Run React Doctor and confirm this diagnostic no longer appears.
- Report the files changed and any checks you could not run.Related rules
More Bugs rules from the rules reference:
react-doctor/ink-no-dom-router: DOM router used in an Ink treereact-doctor/ink-no-focus-in-render: Ink focus changed during renderreact-doctor/ink-no-layout-inside-text: Layout component nested in Ink Textreact-doctor/ink-no-live-hooks-in-render-to-string: Inert input hook used during string renderingreact-doctor/ink-no-measure-element-in-render: Ink element measured during render