salesforce / salesforce/design-system-react
Input: Deprecate inline help text pattern
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- Dominant language
- JavaScript
- Stars
- 982
- Forks
- 440
- Avg merge
- 1d 21h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 4
Description
Unless it is in an error state, inline help text should not be present.

There is no styling to handle the text in the design system styles.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No file, test, or entry point is named. Start by locating the Input components and the design system styles that handle inline help text, then determine how the error-state exception is represented. Done means the deprecated pattern is addressed consistently and its relevant tests or visual checks pass.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, react
- Domain
- design, frontend
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 32/100