SolidJS•16mo ago

Access child ref from parent component

Hello ya'll. I am having a bit of a brain fart, id like to access the child ref of an element from the parent. What is the best way to do this, ive done this before, but am having a brain fart atm.

6 Replies

DaOfficialWizard🧙OP•16mo ago

Note - i solved it by using Props and mergeRef from solid primatives

mdynnl•16mo ago

here's the gist of it

const Child = (props) => {
  let div;
  return <div ref={ref => { div = ref; props.ref(ref) }} />
}
const Parent = () => {
  let child;
  return <Child ref={child} />
}

const Child = (props) => {
  let div;
  return <div ref={ref => { div = ref; props.ref(ref) }} />
}
const Parent = () => {
  let child;
  return <Child ref={child} />
}

DaOfficialWizard🧙OP•16mo ago

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense 🙂

mdynnl•16mo ago

if you wanna dive a little, try searching signal ref here in discord as i'll be just repeating the same thing over and over again lol

DaOfficialWizard🧙OP•16mo ago

i tried searching before i asked, but couldnt find anything using my search terms. Thanks for this!

mdynnl•16mo ago

nah, this is only if you want to dive in 😉

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