`react-doctor/no-tailwind-layout-transition`

Animating a layout property

Category: Performance
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-tailwind-layout-transition. 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

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Reported pattern

<div className="transition-[margin-top] hover:mt-2" />

Corrected pattern

const A = () => <div className="transition-transform" />;

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-tailwind-layout-transition diagnostic in the current repository. Required change: - Animate transform and opacity instead, since they skip layout and run on the compositor. For height, animate grid-template-rows from 0fr to 1fr.

Reference transformation:Before:

<div className="transition-[margin-top] hover:mt-2" />

After:

const A = () => <div className="transition-transform" />;

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. - Preserve resource ownership and cleanup. Do not move work into a hotter render or frame path. - 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 Performance rules from the rules reference:

react-doctor/no-transition-all: List specific properties: `transition: "opacity 200ms, transform 200ms"` — or in Tailwind use `transition-colors`, `transition-opacity`, or `transition-transform`
react-doctor/no-unbounded-animation-frame-loop: Animation frame loop has no stop path
react-doctor/no-undeferred-third-party: Use `next/script` with `strategy="lazyOnload"` or add the `defer` attribute
react-doctor/no-unstable-nested-components: Hoist nested components to module scope or memoize them — never define one inside another.
react-doctor/no-unthrottled-scroll-mutation: Scroll handler drives animation every event

react-doctor/no-tailwind-layout-transition