[Fiber] relax DOM validation rules at root

gnoff · gnoff · commit c15858c8c191 · 2025-02-01T10:32:09.000-08:00
in react-dom in Dev we validate that the tag nesting is valid. This is motivated primarily because while browsers are tolerant to poor HTML there are many cases that if server rendered will be hydrated in a way that will break hydration.

With the changes to singleton scoping where the document body is now the implicit render/hydration context for arbitrary tags at the root we need to adjust the validation logic to allow for valid programs such as rendering divs as a child of a Document (since this div will actually insert into the body).
diff --git a/packages/react-dom-bindings/src/client/ReactDOMComponent.js b/packages/react-dom-bindings/src/client/ReactDOMComponent.js
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ function setProp(
     case 'children': {
       if (typeof value === 'string') {
         if (__DEV__) {
-          validateTextNesting(value, tag);
+          validateTextNesting(value, tag, false);
         }
         // Avoid setting initial textContent when the text is empty. In IE11 setting
         // textContent on a <textarea> will cause the placeholder to not
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ function setProp(
       } else if (typeof value === 'number' || typeof value === 'bigint') {
         if (__DEV__) {
           // $FlowFixMe[unsafe-addition] Flow doesn't want us to use `+` operator with string and bigint
-          validateTextNesting('' + value, tag);
+          validateTextNesting('' + value, tag, false);
         }
         const canSetTextContent = tag !== 'body';
         if (canSetTextContent) {
diff --git a/packages/react-dom-bindings/src/client/ReactFiberConfigDOM.js b/packages/react-dom-bindings/src/client/ReactFiberConfigDOM.js
@@ -595,7 +595,11 @@ export function createTextInstance(
     const hostContextDev = ((hostContext: any): HostContextDev);
     const ancestor = hostContextDev.ancestorInfo.current;
     if (ancestor != null) {
-      validateTextNesting(text, ancestor.tag);
+      validateTextNesting(
+        text,
+        ancestor.tag,
+        hostContextDev.ancestorInfo.implicitRootScope,
+      );
     }
   }
   const textNode: TextInstance = getOwnerDocumentFromRootContainer(
@@ -2039,7 +2043,11 @@ export function validateHydratableTextInstance(
     const hostContextDev = ((hostContext: any): HostContextDev);
     const ancestor = hostContextDev.ancestorInfo.current;
     if (ancestor != null) {
-      return validateTextNesting(text, ancestor.tag);
+      return validateTextNesting(
+        text,
+        ancestor.tag,
+        hostContextDev.ancestorInfo.implicitRootScope,
+      );
     }
   }
   return true;
diff --git a/packages/react-dom-bindings/src/client/validateDOMNesting.js b/packages/react-dom-bindings/src/client/validateDOMNesting.js
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ export type AncestorInfoDev = {
 
   // <head> or <body>
   containerTagInScope: ?Info,
+  implicitRootScope: boolean,
 };
 
 // This validation code was written based on the HTML5 parsing spec:
@@ -219,10 +220,11 @@ const emptyAncestorInfoDev: AncestorInfoDev = {
   dlItemTagAutoclosing: null,
 
   containerTagInScope: null,
+  implicitRootScope: false,
 };
 
 function updatedAncestorInfoDev(
-  oldInfo: ?AncestorInfoDev,
+  oldInfo: null | AncestorInfoDev,
   tag: string,
 ): AncestorInfoDev {
   if (__DEV__) {
@@ -238,14 +240,14 @@ function updatedAncestorInfoDev(
       ancestorInfo.pTagInButtonScope = null;
     }
 
-    // See rules for 'li', 'dd', 'dt' start tags in
-    // https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/syntax.html#parsing-main-inbody
     if (
       specialTags.indexOf(tag) !== -1 &&
       tag !== 'address' &&
       tag !== 'div' &&
       tag !== 'p'
     ) {
+      // See rules for 'li', 'dd', 'dt' start tags in
+      // https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/syntax.html#parsing-main-inbody
       ancestorInfo.listItemTagAutoclosing = null;
       ancestorInfo.dlItemTagAutoclosing = null;
     }
@@ -279,6 +281,17 @@ function updatedAncestorInfoDev(
       ancestorInfo.containerTagInScope = info;
     }
 
+    if (
+      oldInfo === null &&
+      (tag === '#document' || tag === 'html' || tag === 'body')
+    ) {
+      // While <head> is also a singleton we don't want to support semantics where
+      // you can escape the head by rendering a body singleton so we treat it like a normal scope
+      ancestorInfo.implicitRootScope = true;
+    } else if (ancestorInfo.implicitRootScope === true) {
+      ancestorInfo.implicitRootScope = false;
+    }
+
     return ancestorInfo;
   } else {
     return (null: any);
@@ -288,7 +301,11 @@ function updatedAncestorInfoDev(
 /**
  * Returns whether
  */
-function isTagValidWithParent(tag: string, parentTag: ?string): boolean {
+function isTagValidWithParent(
+  tag: string,
+  parentTag: ?string,
+  implicitRootScope: boolean,
+): boolean {
   // First, let's check if we're in an unusual parsing mode...
   switch (parentTag) {
     // https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/syntax.html#parsing-main-inselect
@@ -363,10 +380,22 @@ function isTagValidWithParent(tag: string, parentTag: ?string): boolean {
       );
     // https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics.html#the-html-element
     case 'html':
+      if (implicitRootScope) {
+        // When our parent tag is html and we're in the root scope we will actually
+        // insert most tags into the body so we need to fall through to validating
+        // the specific tag with "in body" parsing mode below
+        break;
+      }
       return tag === 'head' || tag === 'body' || tag === 'frameset';
     case 'frameset':
       return tag === 'frame';
     case '#document':
+      if (implicitRootScope) {
+        // When our parent is the Document and we're in the root scope we will actually
+        // insert most tags into the body so we need to fall through to validating
+        // the specific tag with "in body" parsing mode below
+        break;
+      }
       return tag === 'html';
   }
 
@@ -393,14 +422,11 @@ function isTagValidWithParent(tag: string, parentTag: ?string): boolean {
     case 'rt':
       return impliedEndTags.indexOf(parentTag) === -1;
 
-    case 'body':
     case 'caption':
     case 'col':
     case 'colgroup':
     case 'frameset':
     case 'frame':
-    case 'head':
-    case 'html':
     case 'tbody':
     case 'td':
     case 'tfoot':
@@ -412,6 +438,24 @@ function isTagValidWithParent(tag: string, parentTag: ?string): boolean {
       // so we allow it only if we don't know what the parent is, as all other
       // cases are invalid.
       return parentTag == null;
+    case 'head':
+      // We support rendering <head> in the root when the container is
+      // #document, <htm>, or <body>.
+      return implicitRootScope || parentTag === null;
+    case 'html':
+      // We support rendering <html> in the root when the container is
+      // #document
+      return (
+        (implicitRootScope && parentTag === '#document') || parentTag === null
+      );
+    case 'body':
+      // We support rendering <body> in the root when the container is
+      // #document or 'html'
+      return (
+        (implicitRootScope &&
+          (parentTag === '#document' || parentTag === 'html')) ||
+        parentTag === null
+      );
   }
 
   return true;
@@ -513,7 +557,11 @@ function validateDOMNesting(
     const parentInfo = ancestorInfo.current;
     const parentTag = parentInfo && parentInfo.tag;
 
-    const invalidParent = isTagValidWithParent(childTag, parentTag)
+    const invalidParent = isTagValidWithParent(
+      childTag,
+      parentTag,
+      ancestorInfo.implicitRootScope,
+    )
       ? null
       : parentInfo;
     const invalidAncestor = invalidParent
@@ -594,9 +642,13 @@ function validateDOMNesting(
   return true;
 }
 
-function validateTextNesting(childText: string, parentTag: string): boolean {
+function validateTextNesting(
+  childText: string,
+  parentTag: string,
+  implicitRootScope: boolean,
+): boolean {
   if (__DEV__) {
-    if (isTagValidWithParent('#text', parentTag)) {
+    if (implicitRootScope || isTagValidWithParent('#text', parentTag, false)) {
       return true;
     }
 
diff --git a/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOM-test.js b/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOM-test.js
@@ -601,10 +601,6 @@ describe('ReactDOM', () => {
       '<html lang="en"><head data-h=""><meta itemprop="" content="head"></head><body data-b=""><div>before</div><div>inside</div><div>after</div></body></html>',
     );
 
-    // @TODO remove this warning check when we loosen the tag nesting restrictions to allow arbitrary tags at the
-    // root of the application
-    assertConsoleErrorDev(['In HTML, <div> cannot be a child of <#document>']);
-
     await act(() => {
       root.render(<App phase={1} />);
     });
@@ -666,10 +662,6 @@ describe('ReactDOM', () => {
       '<html><head data-h=""><meta itemprop="" content="head"></head><body data-b=""><div>before</div><div>inside</div><div>after</div></body></html>',
     );
 
-    // @TODO remove this warning check when we loosen the tag nesting restrictions to allow arbitrary tags at the
-    // root of the application
-    assertConsoleErrorDev(['In HTML, <div> cannot be a child of <html>']);
-
     await act(() => {
       root.render(<App phase={1} />);
     });
@@ -729,10 +721,6 @@ describe('ReactDOM', () => {
       '<html><head data-h=""><meta itemprop="" content="head"></head><body><div>before</div><div>inside</div><div>after</div></body></html>',
     );
 
-    // @TODO remove this warning check when we loosen the tag nesting restrictions to allow arbitrary tags at the
-    // root of the application
-    assertConsoleErrorDev(['In HTML, <head> cannot be a child of <body>']);
-
     await act(() => {
       root.render(<App phase={1} />);
     });
diff --git a/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzServer-test.js b/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzServer-test.js
@@ -9004,7 +9004,6 @@ describe('ReactDOMFizzServer', () => {
         </body>
       </html>,
     );
-    assertConsoleErrorDev(['In HTML, <div> cannot be a child of <#document>']);
 
     root.unmount();
     expect(getVisibleChildren(document)).toEqual(
@@ -10173,7 +10172,6 @@ describe('ReactDOMFizzServer', () => {
         </body>
       </html>,
     );
-    assertConsoleErrorDev(['In HTML, <div> cannot be a child of <#document>']);
 
     root.unmount();
     expect(getVisibleChildren(document)).toEqual(
diff --git a/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFloat-test.js b/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFloat-test.js
@@ -511,9 +511,6 @@ describe('ReactDOMFloat', () => {
         'Cannot render <noscript> outside the main document. Try moving it into the root <head> tag.',
         {withoutStack: true},
       ],
-      'In HTML, <noscript> cannot be a child of <#document>.\n' +
-        'This will cause a hydration error.\n' +
-        '    in noscript (at **)',
     ]);
 
     root.render(
@@ -577,9 +574,6 @@ describe('ReactDOMFloat', () => {
           'Consider adding precedence="default" or moving it into the root <head> tag.',
         {withoutStack: true},
       ],
-      'In HTML, <link> cannot be a child of <#document>.\n' +
-        'This will cause a hydration error.\n' +
-        '    in link (at **)',
     ]);
 
     root.render(
diff --git a/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/validateDOMNesting-test.js b/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/validateDOMNesting-test.js
