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useSemanticElements

Diagnostic Category: lint/a11y/useSemanticElements

Since: v1.8.0

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It detects the use of role attributes in JSX elements and suggests using semantic elements instead.

The role attribute is used to define the purpose of an element, but it should be used as a last resort. Using semantic elements like <button>, <nav> and others are more accessible and provide better semantics.

Examples

Section titled Examples

Invalid

Section titled Invalid
<div role="checkbox"></div>
code-block.jsx:1:6 lint/a11y/useSemanticElements ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ✖ The elements with this role can be changed to the following elements:
    <input type=“checkbox”>
  
  > 1 │ <div role=“checkbox”></div>
      │      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    2 │ 
  
  ℹ For examples and more information, see WAI-ARIA Roles
  
<div role="separator"></div>
code-block.jsx:1:6 lint/a11y/useSemanticElements ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ✖ The elements with this role can be changed to the following elements:
    <hr>
  
  > 1 │ <div role=“separator”></div>
      │      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    2 │ 
  
  ℹ For examples and more information, see WAI-ARIA Roles

Valid

Section titled Valid
<>
  <input type="checkbox">label</input>
  <hr/>
</>;

All elements with role="img" are ignored:

<div role="img" aria-label="That cat is so cute">
  <p>&#x1F408; &#x1F602;</p>
</div>
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