Access a DOM element in Aurelia

Question

How would you go about accessing a DOM element in Aurelia? This is a broad and general question, but I have a feeling there are one or two preferred ways to do this. I have

Answer 1

As Rob suggested, use ref. For your example:

view

viewModel

class ViewModel { 

    canDeactivate() {
        var form = this.myForm;
        // do stuffs
    }
}

For more information on the ref attribute, see here: http://aurelia.io/docs/binding/basics#function-references