React Events
An action triggered as a result of the user action or system-generated event is termed as an event. The React event handling system, also known as Synthetic Events is a cross-browser wrapper of the browser’s native event and is much like handling events on DOM elements but have some syntactic differences.
- The events in ReactJS use naming as camelCase instead of lowercase.
- A function in ReactJS is passed as the event handler with the use of JSX, instead of passing it as a string.
- To prevent the default behaviour, the preventDefault event must be called explicitly in ReactJS instead of returning false.
Example:
import React, { Component } from 'react'; class App extends React.Component { constructor(props) { super(props); this.state = { StudName: '' }; } changeText(event) { this.setState({ StudName: event.target.value }); } render() { return (); } } export default App;Event
Entered name: { this.state.StudName }
Output 1: