React.js - input losing focus when rerendering

Question

I am just writing to text input and in onChange event i call setState, so React rerenders my UI. The problem is that the text input always lose a f

Answer 1

I had the same problem with an html table in which I have input text lines in a column. inside a loop I read a json object and I create rows in particular I have a column with inputtext.

http://reactkungfu.com/2015/09/react-js-loses-input-focus-on-typing/

I managed to solve it in the following way

import { InputTextComponent } from './InputTextComponent';
//import my  inputTextComponent 
...

var trElementList = (function (list, tableComponent) {

    var trList = [],
        trElement = undefined,
        trElementCreator = trElementCreator,
        employeeElement = undefined;



    // iterating through employee list and
    // creating row for each employee
    for (var x = 0; x < list.length; x++) {

        employeeElement = list[x];

        var trNomeImpatto = React.createElement('tr', null, {employeeElement['NomeTipologiaImpatto'].toUpperCase()});
        trList.push(trNomeImpatto);

        trList.push(trElementCreator(employeeElement, 0, x));
        trList.push(trElementCreator(employeeElement, 1, x));
        trList.push(trElementCreator(employeeElement, 2, x));

    } // end of for  

    return trList; // returns row list

    function trElementCreator(obj, field, index) {
        var tdList = [],
            tdElement = undefined;

        //my input text
        var inputTextarea = 

        tdElement = React.createElement('td', { style: null }, inputTextarea);
        tdList.push(tdElement);


        var trComponent = createClass({

            render: function () {
                return React.createElement('tr', null, tdList);
            }
        });
        return React.createElement(trComponent);
    } // end of trElementCreator

});
...    
    //my tableComponent
    var tableComponent = createClass({
        // initial component states will be here
        // initialize values
        getInitialState: function () {
            return {
                impattiComposite: [],
                serviceId: window.sessionStorage.getItem('serviceId'),
                serviceName: window.sessionStorage.getItem('serviceName'),
                form_data: [],
                successCreation: null,
            };
        },

        //read a json data soure of the web api url
        componentDidMount: function () {
            this.serverRequest =
                $.ajax({
                    url: Url,
                    type: 'GET',
                    contentType: 'application/json',
                    data: JSON.stringify({ id: this.state.serviceId }),
                    cache: false,
                    success: function (response) {
                        this.setState({ impattiComposite: response.data });
                    }.bind(this),

                    error: function (xhr, resp, text) {
                        // show error to console
                        console.error('Error', xhr, resp, text)
                        alert(xhr, resp, text);
                    }
                });
        },

        render: function () {
    ...
    React.createElement('table', {style:null}, React.createElement('tbody', null,trElementList(this.state.impattiComposite, this),))
    ...
    }



            //my input text
            var inputTextarea = //end my input text

                    tdElement = React.createElement('td', { style: null }, inputTextarea);
                    tdList.push(tdElement);//add a component

        //./InputTextComponent.js
        import React from 'react';

        export class InputTextComponent extends React.Component {
          constructor(props) {
            super(props);
            this.state = {
              idImpatto: props.idImpatto,
              value: props.value,
              noteType: props.noteType,
              _impattiComposite: props.impattiComposite,
            };
            this.updateNote = this.updateNote.bind(this);
          }

        //Update a inpute text with new value insert of the user

          updateNote(event) {
            this.setState({ value: event.target.value });//update a state of the local componet inputText
            var impattiComposite = this.state._impattiComposite;
            var index = this.state.idImpatto - 1;
            var impatto = impattiComposite[index];
            impatto[this.state.noteType] = event.target.value;
            this.setState({ _impattiComposite: impattiComposite });//update of the state of the father component (tableComponet)

          }

          render() {
            return (
              
              
            );
          }
        }