[Android] Child `Text` disappears after changing styles of parent `View`

[plneple]

Description

Adding borderWidth and then removing it from a View which also has borderRadius and overflow: "hidden" causes child Text to not be displayed.

I have reproduced the issue on 0.80.2, 0.81.4 and 0.82.1, so this is likely not a regression.

Steps to reproduce

Tap the button in the reproducer twice

React Native Version

0.82.1

Affected Platforms

Runtime - Android

Output of npx @react-native-community/cli info

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Stacktrace or Logs

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MANDATORY Reproducer

https://github.com/plneple/reproducer-react-native-fork/tree/text-inside-view

Screenshots and Videos

Screen.Recording.2025-10-21.at.12.55.26.PM.mov

[AkilUnik]

@plneple can you share your code also

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[oliverdolgener]

We face the exact same problem. We have a View with a borderRadius + overflow: hidden. Every now and then the Text content got hidden for no obvious reason. After a long investigation we found out that the bug appears when borderWidth + borderColor changes. The only workaround we found is to remove overflow: hidden. But this indicates a bug within react native itself

[yahacom]

Hi, @oliverdolgener, did you figure out how to deal with it?

[sbaiahmed1]

This is fixed on main — it's the same bug as #57780, fixed by #57789 (commit 146aaac7ee, merged 2026-08-03).

Root cause (matches this issue's repro exactly): the border-width prop group uses defaultFloat = Float.NaN, so removing borderWidth in JS calls the native setter with NaN, not null. BorderInsets stored that NaN verbatim, and since its resolve() fallback chain uses ?: (which only triggers on null), the NaN flowed into the padding-box rect used for the overflow: hidden clip — a NaN clip path clips out all children, which is why the <Text> vanishes only after a border was added then removed.

Verified with this issue's reproducer on today's main (2660348470), Android emulator API 35, New Architecture:

• current main: toggling borderWidth on/off repeatedly — the child Text always renders ✅
• main with 146aaac7ee's one-line change reverted: removing borderWidth makes the child Text disappear, exactly as in the video ❌

The fix isn't in any published release yet (merged to main on Aug 3, 2026), so 0.80–0.82 as reported — and anything up to the latest stable — are still affected. Until it ships, a workaround is to reset to borderWidth: 0 instead of removing the style property.

I think this can be closed as a duplicate of #57780.