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

Just as another point I came across when trying to use this for myself, the ref variable isn't available during construction, and this isn't clear in the documentation. You can begin to reference the element as mentioned above (http://aurelia.io/hub.html#/doc/article/aurelia/binding/latest/binding-basics/5) anytime during or after the attached method is called.