Blazor, how to pass event target to JavaScript

Question

I'd like to ask:

In Blazor, how to pass event target (or this) to my JavaScript? The thing is I'm creating inputs with @foreach so there can be a number of them.

Here is how it looks like:

@foreach (Item in ItemsList)
        {
          <input 
              @onchange="ChangeColor" 
              value="@Item.Value">
}

I want to simple onchange trigger this function:

@code 

{
    async Task ChangeColor()
    {
        await JsRuntime.InvokeVoidAsync("changeColor");
    }
}

And eventually read the value in my JS:

function changeColor (el) {


   console.log(el);

}

I tried using @ref, however I'd like to get access to the input that triggers the function. Since there may by many of them, I don't want to hardcode it using @ref to each of them.

Answer 1

As said in the comments

@Vencovsky I hoped to get DOM elemenet

And if you want to show in the console the DOM element, you need to pass @ref to the DOM element and pass that reference to javascript

But then you say in your question

I tried using @ref, however I'd like to get access to the input that triggers the function. Since there may by many of them, I don't want to hardcode it using @ref to each of them.

So it's kind of confusing, because you need to use @ref but you say you don't want to use @ref, so what I think is happening is that you used @ref the wrong way and you think you don't need it, but actually you do.

Here is what you need

• A property to hold all the refs of each element (ElementReference)
• Pass to ChangeColor only the element that is clicked

Here is an example on how to do it

@for(var i = 0; i < ItemsList.Count(); i++)
{
    var ii = i;

    @* Passing only the ref that called @onchange *@
    <input @onchange="(() => ChangeColor(Refs[ii]))" 
           @ref="Refs[ii]"
           value="@ItemsList[ii]">
}

@code 
{
    [Inject]
    IJSRuntime JSRuntime  { get; set; }

    async Task ChangeColor(ElementReference el)
    {
        await JSRuntime.InvokeVoidAsync("changeColor", el);
    }

    // Property that will hold the refs 
    ElementReference[] Refs { get; set; }

    string[] ItemsList { get; set; } = new string[]
        {
            "hey",
            "hope",
            "this",
            "works"
        };
}