Property 'value' does not exist on type EventTarget in TypeScript

Question

So the following code is in Angular 4 and I can\'t figure out why it doesn\'t work the way as expected.

Here is a snippet of my handler:

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Answer 1

Here's another fix that works for me:

(event.target as HTMLInputElement).value

That should get rid of the error by letting TS know that event.target is an HTMLInputElement, which inherently has a value. Before specifying, TS likely only knew that event alone was an HTMLInputElement, thus according to TS the keyed-in target was some randomly mapped value that could be anything.