Relative Content

Tag Archive for reactjs

How can I prevent onBlur from executing when a button is clicked outside of a block with an onBlur event?

I have my own search input. When I enter a value into it, I have items matching the search terms displayed. I need to show these elements only when the input is in focus, and hide them when blurred. But here’s the problem: when I click onClick on one of the items, I need to perform some actions but I don’t want onBlur to be triggered. But when I click on an element, onBlur is triggered, which causes the elements to be hidden and the onClick event for the element is not triggered.

Why refs are not regular Props?

I saw news that refs could be accessed through props in functional components in React 19, but before that, why couldn’t refs be accessed from regular props? I wonder why!

Use React’s useEffect to detect change in focus

useEffect(() => { console.log(“change in focus”) }, [DEPENDENCY]); I want a DEPENDENCY that changes when the focus changes in the document; an example would be when a user clicks on or off an input. I tried document.activeElement but it didn’t work. reactjs 1 useEffect dependency arrays are only useful if your component is already rendering. […]