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title: MARKLESS_ELEMENT_HANDLE_WIDGET_INSTANCE_MISSING
description: "A Markless build error from @markless/compiler."
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**Error** from the build tools, while Vite builds or serves your app.

## What happened

This error has no message text. The code is the whole message.

## How to fix it

If you see this error, open an issue on the [Markless repo](https://github.com/compiled-run/markless/issues) with the steps that cause it.

This page has no guide yet. [Help write it](/contributing/improve-these-docs).

## Where it comes from

`@markless/compiler` raises this code. Source:

- [packages/compiler/src/passes/public-render/residue-reader.ts](https://github.com/compiled-run/markless/blob/main/packages/compiler/src/passes/public-render/residue-reader.ts)

Read [how to read a Markless error](/tooling/diagnostics), or go back to [all error codes](/errors).