`react-doctor/no-clipped-overlay`

Overlay can be clipped by an overflow container

Category: Bugs
Severity: warn
Source: oxlint-plugin-react-doctor
Framework: global
Enabled when: always
Tags: design, test-noise
Default: Disabled until configured

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Confirm the reported code matches react-doctor/no-clipped-overlay. 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

<div className="relative overflow-hidden">
  <div role="menu" className="absolute top-full">
    Actions
  </div>
</div>;

Corrected pattern

<div className="relative">
  <div role="menu" className="absolute top-full">
    Actions
  </div>
</div>;

How to fix

Use the corrected pattern as a reference. Preserve behavior that the rule does not require you to change.

Copyable fix prompt

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Fix every confirmed react-doctor/no-clipped-overlay diagnostic in the current repository. Required change: - Render the overlay outside the clipping container, usually through a portal, or remove the clipping overflow.

Reference transformation:Before:

<div className="relative overflow-hidden">
  <div role="menu" className="absolute top-full">
    Actions
  </div>
</div>;

After:

<div className="relative">
  <div role="menu" className="absolute top-full">
    Actions
  </div>
</div>;

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. - Use existing brand assets, product facts, content, and design tokens. - Do not invent claims, customer data, typefaces, or artwork. - Adapt identifiers and framework details instead of copying blindly. - Do not disable the rule or suppress matching code. 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.

More Bugs rules from the rules reference:

react-doctor/no-collapse-request-error-to-empty-state: Request failure rendered as an empty result
react-doctor/no-collapsed-literal-or-chain-as-value: All-literal logical chain used as a multi-value expression
react-doctor/no-conflicting-spring-options: Motion spring mixes incompatible option modes
react-doctor/no-controlled-input-value-without-state-update: Controlled input value is a fixed literal
react-doctor/no-create-context-in-render: Move createContext to module scope so its Context identity stays stable across renders

react-doctor/no-clipped-overlay