no-children-prop.md

Prevent passing of children as props (react/no-children-prop)

Children should always be actual children, not passed in as a prop.

When using JSX, the children should be nested between the opening and closing tags. When not using JSX, the children should be passed as additional arguments to React.createElement.

Rule Details

Examples of incorrect code for this rule:

<div children='Children' />

<MyComponent children={<AnotherComponent />} />
<MyComponent children={['Child 1', 'Child 2']} />

React.createElement("div", { children: 'Children' })

Examples of correct code for this rule:

<div>Children</div>

<MyComponent>Children</MyComponent>

<MyComponent>
  <span>Child 1</span>
  <span>Child 2</span>
</MyComponent>

React.createElement("div", {}, 'Children')
React.createElement("div", 'Child 1', 'Child 2')

Rule Options

"react/no-children-prop": [<enabled>, {
  "allowFunctions": <boolean> || false
}]

allowFunctions

When true, and passing a function as children, it must be in prop position and not child position.

The following patterns are considered warnings:

<MyComponent>{data => data.value}</MyComponent>
React.createElement(MyComponent, {}, data => data.value)

The following are not considered warnings:

<MyComponent children={data => data.value} />
React.createElement(MyComponent, { children: data => data.value })