The easiest way by far to read values from html controls is by using an event handler.
export default class myComponent extends Component {
person = {};
onChange = field => e => {
this.person[field] = e.target.value;
};
render() {
return (
<Input
id="firstName"
name="firstName"
autoComplete="firstName"
autoFocus
onChange={this.onChange('FirstName')}
/>
);
}
}
In the above code snippet we are basically telling react to fire the onChange member on an update of firstName control update. Our method will receive an event e, that has a handle to our control and we can basically probe it's value member to get what's typed in (much like jquery's $('#element').value()
).
Why is it the easiest method? because it's generic enough to allow you to handle multiple inputs in a react component. Notice that, I'm also instructing React to pass me the control name in addition to the event, and using this method I can basically know exactly which of my inputs (in case of multiple) caused the event to fire.