React & Modern Frontend (445 Qs)•Part 11: Legacy Architecture, Migration Patterns & Historical Internals (354 - 445)
How to programmatically trigger click event in React?
You could use the ref prop to acquire a reference to the underlying HTMLInputElement object through a callback, store the reference as a class property, then use that reference to later trigger a click from your event handlers using the HTMLElement.click method.
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This can be done in two steps:
1. Create ref in render method:
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<input ref={(input) => (this.inputElement = input)} />
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2. Apply click event in your event handler:
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this.inputElement.click();