{"id":34156,"date":"2023-03-02T11:54:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T06:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-react-jquerythis-selector-is-not-working\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T11:54:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T06:24:43","slug":"solved-react-jquerythis-selector-is-not-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-react-jquerythis-selector-is-not-working\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] React jQuery(this) selector is not working"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-60213108\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"60213108\" data-parentid=\"60213068\" data-score=\"-2\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"0\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"0\" itemprop=\"suggestedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p><code>this<\/code> points to React component instance and not the input element. You can achieve this using <code>event.target<\/code><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"snippet\" data-lang=\"js\" data-hide=\"false\" data-console=\"true\" data-babel=\"false\">\n<div class=\"snippet-code\">\n<pre class=\"snippet-code-js lang-js prettyprint-override\"><code>class LoginReg extends Component {\r\n    render() {\r\n        function minimizeLabel(event){\r\n            $(event.target).closest(\".Reg-fields\").css(\"border-bottom\", \"2px solid #f99\");\r\n            $(event.target).closest(\"label\").css(\"top\", \"-15px\").css(\"font-size\", \".7em\").css(\"transition\", \".3s ease-out\");\r\n        }\r\n\r\n        return (\r\n            &lt;div&gt;\r\n              &lt;div className=\"custom-container\"&gt;\r\n                &lt;div className=\"Reg-fields\"&gt;\r\n                  &lt;input type=\"email\" onClick={minimizeLabel}\/&gt;\r\n                  &lt;label&gt;Email&lt;\/label&gt;\r\n                &lt;\/div&gt;\r\n              &lt;\/div&gt;\r\n         );\r\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\">1<\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved React jQuery(this) selector is not working <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] this points to React component instance and not the input element. 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