How to submit form from a button outside that component in React?

Question

I have a form in one of my React components, and and in the outside component that calls it I want to pass a reference to a button there, so that I can also submit that usin

Answer 1

None of these solutions worked for me, but I finally figured it out by doing

document.forms[0].submit()

Since there was only one form on the page, I selected it with the 0 index, but if there are multiple forms then you'd need to use the applicable index for the forms array.