I've got some react code like the following (minimal reproducible example):
import React, { useState } from 'react';
const Todo = ({todo}) => {
const [isUpdating, setisUpdating] = useState(false)
const updateItemHandler = (e) => {
setisUpdating(true);
}
return(
<div onClick={updateItemHandler} className={fa ${isUpdating ? "fa-check" : "fa-pencil"}`}></div>
<div id={todo.id}>
<div suppressContentEditableWarning={true}
contentEditable = {isUpdating}>{todo.value}
</div>
</div>
)
}
export default Todo;
When I clicked the div, it does change contentEditable to true, but I would also like to focus the newly editable div at the same time. I tried modifying my updateItemHandler function like so:
const updateItemHandler = (e) => {
setisUpdating(true);
e.focus();
}
but React threw an error/said focus wasn't a function here.
Is there some way I can automatically focus the div when I change the contentEditable to true?
Thanks
You can try something like this
import React, { useState, useRef } from 'react';
const Todo = ({todo}) => {
const ref = useRef(null)
const [isUpdating, setisUpdating] = useState(false)
const updateItemHandler = (e) => {
setisUpdating(true);
ref.current.focus()
}
return(
<div className="row text-center" id={todo.id}>
<div suppressContentEditableWarning={true}
contentEditable = {isUpdating} ref={ref}>{todo.value}
</div>
</div>
)
}
export default Todo;
Using ref (reference) may help you