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Creating Input Elements

Explore how to create and manage controlled input elements within React applications. This lesson helps you understand component state changes, function binding for callbacks, and debugging techniques using the browser console to build interactive client-side pages effectively.

Example of controlling input elements

To start, we’ll create a new directory to showcase controlled inputs and changing states. We do this by creating a React application.

XML
$ npx create-react-app more-react
$ cd more-react

We create a form to exhibit the most common types of HTML inputs. The code uses JSX to place the HTML elements within JavaScript. This example uses the following input.

Try it yourself

Note: The following widget has a few additional files. The CSS files come built-in using the command npx create-react-app. Also, reportWebVitals.js contains a set of useful metrics that aim to capture the user experience of a web page. We’ve already run the command npm start ...