"confines to" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to mean restrict or limit something. For example, "The company confined their operations to only one location."
If there's no consensus, there's no single genre with rules and confines to adhere to.
The rest of the film follows closely on the detective-like attempt, albeit within family confines, to uncover her deception.
Paglen, who is thirty-eight, has close-cropped blond hair, blue eyes, a goatee, and a thin beard that he confines to his jawline with an electric trimmer.
They soon moved out of its confines to a darkly dramatic score by John Mackey, the company's music director, which was played by the Elm City Ensemble.
That demanding position has put obvious limitations on his solo career, but he can be heard here in intimate confines to good advantage.
Its potential for recreational use was appreciated and the drug soon escaped the clinical confines to become the one of the world's most popular synthetic psychedelics, fuelling the 1980s acid house dance-drug craze.
