{"id":201595,"date":"2025-02-13T08:27:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T08:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/namso-gen.co\/blog\/how-to-get-input-value-in-react-functional-component\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T08:27:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T08:27:47","slug":"how-to-get-input-value-in-react-functional-component","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/namso-gen.co\/blog\/how-to-get-input-value-in-react-functional-component\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get input value in React functional component?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In React functional components, you may need to access the value of an input field or form element. To achieve this, you can use React’s useState hook to create state variables to store the input values and onChange event handler to update these values. <\/p>\n

**Here’s how you can get the input value in a React functional component:**<\/p>\n

“`jsx
\nimport React, { useState } from ‘react’;<\/p>\n

const MyComponent = () => {
\n const [inputValue, setInputValue] = useState(”);<\/p>\n

const handleInputChange = (e) => {
\n setInputValue(e.target.value);
\n }<\/p>\n

return (
\n
\n );
\n}<\/p>\n

export default MyComponent;
\n“`<\/p>\n

In this example, we first import the `useState` hook from ‘react’ and declare a state variable `inputValue` and a function `setInputValue`. We then create an input element with a value attribute set to `inputValue` and an onChange event handler that calls `handleInputChange` function to update the state variable with the input value.<\/p>\n

By following this approach, you can easily access the input value in a React functional component.<\/p>\n

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