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Replies for: Fragments don't render divs, they are a placeholder that renders nothing at all to the DOM, so the only thing rendered is what is returned by the f...

Ben Sinclair • Jun 25 '22

So all these examples, which return a wrapper div with conditional content - does React strip out the empty div automatically?

Mike Talbot ⭐ • Jun 25 '22 • Edited

<></> is a Fragment not a <div></div>, so nothing apart from the content is rendered.

Ben Sinclair • Jun 25 '22

Ah, OP has updated the post. It used to use <div> in all the examples.

Mike Talbot ⭐ • Jun 26 '22

Ahhh!!! That explains a lot :)