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Error within views plugin renderText method

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Created on 24 July 2025, 21 days ago

Problem/Motivation

After upgrading to Drupal 11, I see the following error while rendering a View, including in the Views preview area.

TypeError: Drupal\Core\Render\Renderer::doRender(): Argument `#1` ($elements) must be of type array, null given, called in /var/www/web/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Render/Renderer.php on line 222 in Drupal\Core\Render\Renderer->doRender() (line 265 of core/lib/Drupal/Core/Render/Renderer.php).

Drupal\Core\Render\Renderer->render(NULL) (Line: 56)
Drupal\html_title\Plugin\views\field\NodeHtmlTitle->renderText(Array) (Line: 1260)
Drupal\views\Plugin\views\field\FieldPluginBase->advancedRender(Object) (Line: 230)
template_preprocess_views_view_field(Array, 'views_view_field', Array)
...

Steps to reproduce

Only occurs in Drupal 11

  1. Add an entity reference (node) field to a taxonomy.
  2. Create a taxonomy term, but do NOT reference any nodes in this field.
  3. Create a view that is a Taxonomy Term based view.
    • Add a relationship to content based on the entity reference field. ("Content referenced from field_test_node_reference")
    • Add a contextual filter "Taxonomy term: Term ID" with fixed value of the id of your test term.
    • You should now see your term name in the Views preview area.
    • Add the Content Title field, using the relationship.

  4. The view Preview will now crash with a console error!

Proposed resolution

The attached patch uses "empty" to check if the $alter['rendered'] array key exists before passing it to the renderer.

🐛 Bug report
Status

Active

Version

1.6

Component

Code

Created by

🇺🇸United States jessehs Taos, New Mexico

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  • Issue created by @jessehs
  • Comment 21 days ago →
    🇺🇸United States jessehs Taos, New Mexico
  • Comment 13 days ago →
    bhogue

    I can confirm that I was able to preview/create the view as per the instructions above without any crash/console error.

    However, when I went to the page that my view was configured to display on, this error was displayed:

    Debug: Calling Drupal\Core\Render\Renderer::render with NULL is deprecated in drupal:11.3.0 and is removed from drupal:12.0.0. Either pass an array or skip the call. See https://www.drupal.org/node/3534020. in Drupal\Core\Render\Renderer->render() (line 215 of core/lib/Drupal/Core/Render/Renderer.php).
Drupal\Core\Render\Renderer->render() (Line: 54)
Drupal\html_title\Plugin\views\field\NodeHtmlTitle->renderText() (Line: 1260)
Drupal\views\Plugin\views\field\FieldPluginBase->advancedRender() (Line: 230)
template_preprocess_views_view_field()
call_user_func_array() (Line: 302)
Drupal\Core\Theme\ThemeManager->Drupal\Core\Theme\{closure}() (Line: 326)
Drupal\Core\Theme\ThemeManager->render() (Line: 499)
Drupal\Core\Render\Renderer->doRender() (Line: 229)
Drupal\Core\Render\Renderer->render() (Line: 1811)
Drupal\views\Plugin\views\field\FieldPluginBase->theme() (Line: 778)
Drupal\views\Plugin\views\style\StylePluginBase->elementPreRenderRow()
call_user_func_array() (Line: 107)
Drupal\Core\Render\Renderer->doTrustedCallback() (Line: 908)
Drupal\Core\Render\Renderer->doCallback() (Line: 440)
Drupal\Core\Render\Renderer->doRender() (Line: 229)
Drupal\Core\Render\Renderer->render() (Line: 715)
Drupal\views\Plugin\views\style\StylePluginBase->renderFields() (Line: 579)
Drupal\views\Plugin\views\style\StylePluginBase->renderGrouping() (Line: 467)
Drupal\views\Plugin\views\style\StylePluginBase->render() (Line: 2213)
Drupal\views\Plugin\views\display\DisplayPluginBase->render() (Line: 1595)
Drupal\views\ViewExecutable->render() (Line: 201)
Drupal\views\Plugin\views\display\Page->execute() (Line: 1692)
Drupal\views\ViewExecutable->executeDisplay() (Line: 80)
Drupal\views\Element\View::preRenderViewElement()
call_user_func_array() (Line: 107)
Drupal\Core\Render\Renderer->doTrustedCallback() (Line: 908)
Drupal\Core\Render\Renderer->doCallback() (Line: 440)
Drupal\Core\Render\Renderer->doRender() (Line: 229)
Drupal\Core\Render\Renderer->render() (Line: 242)
Drupal\Core\Render\MainContent\HtmlRenderer->Drupal\Core\Render\MainContent\{closure}() (Line: 633)
Drupal\Core\Render\Renderer::Drupal\Core\Render\{closure}()
Fiber->start() (Line: 634)
Drupal\Core\Render\Renderer->executeInRenderContext() (Line: 235)
Drupal\Core\Render\MainContent\HtmlRenderer->prepare() (Line: 131)
Drupal\Core\Render\MainContent\HtmlRenderer->renderResponse() (Line: 90)
Drupal\Core\EventSubscriber\MainContentViewSubscriber->onViewRenderArray() (Line: 246)
Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\EventDispatcher::Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\{closure}() (Line: 206)
Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\EventDispatcher->callListeners() (Line: 56)
Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\EventDispatcher->dispatch() (Line: 188)
Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\HttpKernel->handleRaw() (Line: 76)
Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\HttpKernel->handle() (Line: 53)
Drupal\Core\StackMiddleware\Session->handle() (Line: 48)
Drupal\Core\StackMiddleware\KernelPreHandle->handle() (Line: 28)
Drupal\Core\StackMiddleware\ContentLength->handle() (Line: 32)
Drupal\big_pipe\StackMiddleware\ContentLength->handle() (Line: 116)
Drupal\page_cache\StackMiddleware\PageCache->pass() (Line: 90)
Drupal\page_cache\StackMiddleware\PageCache->handle() (Line: 48)
Drupal\Core\StackMiddleware\ReverseProxyMiddleware->handle() (Line: 51)
Drupal\Core\StackMiddleware\NegotiationMiddleware->handle() (Line: 53)
Drupal\Core\StackMiddleware\AjaxPageState->handle() (Line: 51)
Drupal\Core\StackMiddleware\StackedHttpKernel->handle() (Line: 715)
Drupal\Core\DrupalKernel->handle() (Line: 19)
  • Comment 13 days ago →
    🇺🇸United States jessehs Taos, New Mexico

    @bhogue, I was testing with Drupal 11.2.2. Perhaps you are using a dev release. It looks like a fix for this was committed to 11.2.x and 11.3.x recently:

    https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3524738 🐛 Fatal error when passing NULL to Renderer::render() Active

    However, this patch should still be committed since this code will break again in Drupal 12.

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