{"id":10936,"date":"2024-07-18T05:54:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T05:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bacancytechnology.com\/qanda\/?p=10936"},"modified":"2024-07-18T05:54:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T05:54:36","slug":"event-target-value-in-react-native","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bacancytechnology.com\/qanda\/react-native\/event-target-value-in-react-native","title":{"rendered":"event.target.value in React Native"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The onChange event of the TextInput component works differently in React Native than in a web browser. To obtain the text value directly, use the onChangeText prop rather than event.target.value. Here&#8217;s how to change your React Native code to handle this correctly<\/p>\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"r\">import React, { useState } from 'react';\r\nimport { View, TextInput } from 'react-native';\r\nconst App = () =&gt; {\r\n  const [inputValue, setInputValue] = useState('');\r\n  const handleInput = (text) =&gt; {\r\n    setInputValue(text);\r\n  };\r\n\r\n  return (\r\n      &lt;TextInput\r\n        value={inputValue}\r\n        onChangeText={handleInput}\r\n        placeholder=\"Enter text here\"\r\n      \/&gt;\r\n  );\r\n};\r\nexport default App;\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nReact Native text input handling is easier using onChangeText, which allows you to access the text value directly instead of interacting with the event object.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The onChange event of the TextInput component works differently in React Native than in a web browser. To obtain the text value directly, use the onChangeText prop rather than event.target.value. Here&#8217;s how to change your React Native code to handle this correctly import React, { useState } from &#8216;react&#8217;; import { View, TextInput } from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-react-native"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bacancytechnology.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bacancytechnology.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bacancytechnology.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bacancytechnology.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bacancytechnology.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bacancytechnology.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10938,"href":"https:\/\/www.bacancytechnology.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10936\/revisions\/10938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bacancytechnology.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bacancytechnology.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bacancytechnology.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bacancytechnology.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}