Would you mind explaining? As a jQuery believer, to me this looks like a selector method - getElementByID or something. I'm guessing this is against the whole idea of React.
Refs are simply references to DOM nodes that you have to specify through the ref (HTML) attribute. You can give a DOM node the ref value "foo" and then later reference it in a react component with this.refs.foo (previously this.refs.foo.getDOMNode()).
desuvader|10 years ago