React: Keyboard Event Handlers All 'Null'

Question

I\'m unable to get any of the React SyntheticKeyboardEvent handlers to register anything except null for the event properties.

I\'ve isolated t

Answer 1

You can also extract the underlying (original) browser event from the Synthetic*Event wrapper via the nativeEvent property. E.g.,

handleKeyDown: function(e) {
  console.log('keyDown:event', e.nativeEvent);
},

(Just as with @Riccardo's note about e.persist(), it's unclear how you're supposed to know this without reading the React.js source code.)