react-doctor/no-redundant-title-tooltip
Title tooltip repeats visible control text
- 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
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Confirm the reported code matches react-doctor/no-redundant-title-tooltip. 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
<button title="Save">Save</button>Corrected pattern
const Save = () => <button>Save changes</button>;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/no-redundant-title-tooltip diagnostic in the current repository.
Required change:
- Remove tooltips that merely repeat a control's visible label.<button title="Save">Save</button>const Save = () => <button>Save changes</button>;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.
Related rules
More Maintainability rules from the rules reference:
react-doctor/no-render-in-render: Extract to a named component: `const ListItem = ({ item }) => <div>{item.name}</div>`react-doctor/no-render-prop-children: Replace `renderXxx` props with compound subcomponents (e.g. `<Modal.Header>`) or `children` so the parent doesn't dictate every customization pointreact-doctor/no-repeated-container-text: A card repeats the same text in distinct slotsreact-doctor/no-repeated-emoji-tiles: Page repeats boxed emoji as feature iconsreact-doctor/no-repeated-glass-surfaces: Page repeats glass panels