Getting DOM node from React child element

Question

Using the React.findDOMNode method that was introduced in v0.13.0 I am able to get the DOM node of each child component that was passed into a parent by mapping

Answer 1

If you want to access any DOM element simply add ref attribute and you can directly access that element.

And then you can directly:

componentDidMount: function() 
{
    this.refs.myinput.select();

},

Their is no need of using ReactDOM.findDOMNode(), if you have added a ref to any element.