`react-doctor/no-excessive-pill-treatment`

Page overuses pill-shaped treatments

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

Validate the diagnostic

Confirm the reported code matches this rule before you edit it.

Confirm the reported code matches react-doctor/no-excessive-pill-treatment. 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.

Compare the code

The corrected pattern shows a focused way to address the diagnostic.

Reported pattern

const Page = () => (
  <main>
    <span className="rounded-full border px-3">Fast</span>
    <span className="rounded-full bg-blue-100 px-3">Secure</span>
    <button className="rounded-full border px-4">Start</button>
    <a className="rounded-full bg-black px-4">Docs</a>
    <div className="rounded-full border px-3">New</div>
  </main>
);

Corrected pattern

const Page = () => (
  <main>
    <span className="border px-3">Fast</span>
    <span className="bg-blue-100 px-3">Secure</span>
    <button className="rounded-md border px-4">Start</button>
    <a className="rounded-md bg-black px-4">Docs</a>
    <div className="border px-3">New</div>
  </main>
);

How to fix

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

Copyable fix prompt

Copy this self-contained prompt into your coding agent after you confirm the diagnostic.

Fix every confirmed react-doctor/no-excessive-pill-treatment diagnostic in the current repository. Required change: - Use pills only for controls or compact metadata whose shape communicates a real role.

Reference transformation:Before:

const Page = () => (
  <main>
    <span className="rounded-full border px-3">Fast</span>
    <span className="rounded-full bg-blue-100 px-3">Secure</span>
    <button className="rounded-full border px-4">Start</button>
    <a className="rounded-full bg-black px-4">Docs</a>
    <div className="rounded-full border px-3">New</div>
  </main>
);

After:

const Page = () => (
  <main>
    <span className="border px-3">Fast</span>
    <span className="bg-blue-100 px-3">Secure</span>
    <button className="rounded-md border px-4">Start</button>
    <a className="rounded-md bg-black px-4">Docs</a>
    <div className="border px-3">New</div>
  </main>
);

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 Maintainability rules from the rules reference:

react-doctor/no-fake-browser-chrome: Preview redraws decorative browser chrome
react-doctor/no-flat-page-type-scale: Page typography uses a compressed size range
react-doctor/no-full-viewport-centered-hero: Hero uses a full-viewport centered template
react-doctor/no-full-viewport-width: Full viewport width causes overflow
react-doctor/no-generic-handler-names: Rename to describe the action: e.g. `handleSubmit` → `saveUserProfile`, `handleClick` → `toggleSidebar`

react-doctor/no-excessive-pill-treatment