I've been working with React, and I'm trying to understand the difference between creating a reference using useRef and creating a reference without it. I've implemented two versions of a simple counter app with a button. In the first version,…
I have a component that should expand if it is selected. Here's my current approach: <Element ref={elementRef} style={{ height: isSelected ? `${elementRef.current.scrollHeight}px` : '0px' }} /> Now, I've added routing, which parses the URL. For example, if I am at…
i'm using next.js import WysiwygEditor from "../wysiwygEditor"; const CreatePost = () => { const editorRef = useRef<any>(null); const printRefCurrent = () => { console.log(editorRef.current); } return ( <> <WysiwygEditor ref={editorRef} /> <button onClick={printRefCurrent}>Click</button> </> ); }; export default CreatePost; import…
I want to open a select box when it gets focus. I'm using React hooks with useRef. I found several solutions with using ref.current.click(). But it is not working as expected. Am I doing something wrong? Here is the simplified…
I am forwarding a ref and then I want to do something based on its style properties const Heading = forwardRef( ({children, ref}) => { return <h1 ref={ref}>{children}</h1>; }); const H = ({ children}) => { const headingRef = useRef();…
I am using the UseRef hook to create a Ref variable and inserting that into one of the components in my return statement. 'AnimationComponent' has it's own <g></g> tags which return some inner elements. The basic outline of my code…
I'm following this part of this tutorial (Edit: created a github project showing the issue here, diff behaviors if running dev or prod modes) (Edit 2: sandbox project showing the differences when running "npm run dev" vs "npm run build…