Returning multiple elements from React components without creating unnecessary wrapper divs is essential for clean, semantic HTML structure. As the creator of CoreUI with over 25 years of development experience building React applications since 2014, I’ve used React Fragments extensively to maintain proper HTML semantics in our component library. The most efficient approach is using the short syntax <>...</> or the explicit <React.Fragment> when you need to pass keys. This technique eliminates extra DOM nodes and prevents CSS layout issues caused by unwanted wrapper elements.