@viewChild not working - cannot read property nativeElement of undefined

Question

I\'m trying to access a native element in order to focus on it when another element is clicked (much like the html attribute \"for\" - for cannot be used on elements of th

Answer 1

Initializing the Canvas like below works for TypeScript/Angular solutions.

const canvas =  document.getElementById("htmlElemId"); 

const context = canvas.getContext("2d");