`react-doctor/no-overloaded-hover-state`

Hover state stacks too many effects

Category: Maintainability
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-overloaded-hover-state. 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

<article
  className="hover:-translate-y-1 hover:scale-105 hover:shadow hover:bg-white"
/>

Corrected pattern

const Card = () => (
  <article className="hover:border-blue-500" />
);

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-overloaded-hover-state diagnostic in the current repository. Required change: - Use one restrained hover effect. Do not stack movement, color, and shadow changes.

Reference transformation:Before:

<article
  className="hover:-translate-y-1 hover:scale-105 hover:shadow hover:bg-white"
/>

After:

const Card = () => (
  <article className="hover:border-blue-500" />
);

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-oversized-long-heading: Long headline uses an oversized display scale
react-doctor/no-pill-navigation-count: Navigation count uses a pill badge
react-doctor/no-placeholder-persona-copy: Page renders a placeholder persona
react-doctor/no-polymorphic-children: Expose explicit subcomponents (`<Button.Text>`, `<Button.Icon>`) so consumers don't need to switch on `typeof children`
react-doctor/no-prop-types: Move propTypes to TypeScript types: `type Props = { value: number }; function Component(props: Props)` — React 19 ignores runtime propTypes

react-doctor/no-overloaded-hover-state