Comment by robertoandred
14 hours ago
You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of React, Next, etc. They don't stop you from using native CSS or HTML functionality.
14 hours ago
You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of React, Next, etc. They don't stop you from using native CSS or HTML functionality.
Not technically, but they sure don't have to make it easy. Getting an element reference is clearly not the optimized-for use case. The docs even warn against it.
> Refs are an escape hatch. Manually manipulating another component’s DOM nodes can make your code fragile.
https://react.dev/learn/manipulating-the-dom-with-refs
Using HTML features doesn't have to mean manipulating another component's nodes.
But sometimes it does.
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