[React] React Fundamentals: Using Refs to Access Components

When you are using React components you need to be able to access specific references to individual components. This is done by defining a ref . ! DOCTYPE html html head lang ="en" meta charset ="UTF-8" title React Lesson 5: Using Refs to

When you are using React components you need to be able to access specific references to individual components. This is done by defining a ref.

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    var React_app = React.createClass({
        getInitialState: function() {
            return {
                red: 128,
                green: 128,
                blue: 128
            }
        },
        myUpdate: function(){
            this.setState({
                red: this.refs.red.getDOMNode().value,
                green: this.refs.green.getDOMNode().value,
                blue: this.refs.blue.getDOMNode().value
            });
        },
        render: function() {
            return (
                 div>
                     Silder update={this.myUpdate} ref="red">/Silder>{this.state.red}/label>br/>
                     Silder update={this.myUpdate} ref="green">/Silder>{this.state.green}/label>br/>
                     Silder update={this.myUpdate} ref="blue">/Silder>{this.state.blue}/label>br/>
                 /div>
            );
        }
    });

    var Silder = React.createClass({
        render: function(){
            return (
                 input type="range" min="0" max="255"  onChange={this.props.update}/>
            )
        }
    });

    React.render(React_app />, document.body);
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Here we use getDOMNode() to get the html node:

 Silder update={this.myUpdate} ref="red">Silder>

then get value from it:

this.refs.red.getDOMNode().value

But, if we add a div:

    var Silder = React.createClass({
        render: function(){
            return (
               div>  
                 input type="range" min="0" max="255"  onChange={this.props.update}/>
               div>  
            )
        }
    });

We found it doesn't work.

The way can solve this problem is by adding another ref to the input element:

    var Silder = React.createClass({
        render: function(){
            return (
               div >
                 input type="range" min="0" max="255" ref="range" onChange={this.props.update}/>
               div>
            )
        }
    });

        myUpdate: function(){
            this.setState({
                red: this.refs.red.refs.range.getDOMNode().value,
                green: this.refs.green.refs.range.getDOMNode().value,
                blue: this.refs.blue.refs.range.getDOMNode().value
            });
        },