Say I have a table:
<div>
<tr>
<td>
<p id='1' className="foo"> Boom </p>
</td>
<td>
<p id='2' className="foo"> Bang </p>
</td>
<td>
<p id='3' className="foobar"> Pew Pew </p>
</td>
</tr>
</div>
I want the data inside it to be editable in-place. Thus I want to substitute <p> element with an <input> and then substitute it with <p> again, but with new value. I've been doing it with jQuery and now made it with what seems to me as plain JS but with React. Code looks like this:
import React, { Component } from "react";
import "./App.css";
class App extends Component {
handleClick(e) {
if (e.target.className === 'foo'){
let element = document.getElementById(e.target.id)
let element_value = element.innerText
let parent_element = element.parentNode
let new_element = document.createElement('input')
parent_element.removeChild(element)
parent_element.appendChild(new_element)
new_element.setAttribute('class', 'input')
new_element.setAttribute('id', e.target.id)
new_element.setAttribute('value', element_value)
} else if (e.target.className === 'input') {
let element = document.getElementById(e.target.id)
let element_value = element.value
let parent_element = element.parentNode
let new_element = document.createElement('p')
parent_element.removeChild(element)
parent_element.appendChild(new_element)
new_element.setAttribute('class', 'foo')
new_element.setAttribute('id', e.target.id)
new_element.innerText = element_value
}
};
componentDidMount() {
document.addEventListener('dblclick', this.handleClick)
}
componentWillUnmount() {
document.removeEventListener('dblclick', this.handleClick)
}
render() {
return (
<div>
<tr>
<td>
<p id='1' className="foo"> Boom </p>
</td>
<td>
<p id='2' className="foo"> Bang </p>
</td>
<td>
<p id='3' className="foobar"> Pew Pew </p>
</td>
</tr>
</div>
)
}
}
export default App
However this doesn't seem to me as a good practice. Could you give me hints on how to improve/change my approach? Thank you.