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

Question

I am using TypeScript Version 2 for an Angular 2 component code.

I am getting error "Property \'value\' does not exist on type \'EventTarget\'" for below co

Answer 1

Here is the simple approach I used:

const element = event.currentTarget as HTMLInputElement
const value = element.value

The error shown by TypeScript compiler is gone and the code works.