How get data from material-ui TextField, DropDownMenu components?

Question

I create form, I have several TextField, DropDownMenu material-ui components included, question is how I can collect all data from all TextFields, DropDownMenus in one obj and s

Answer 1

I don't know about y'all but for my own lazy purposes I just got the text fields from 'document' by ID and set the values as parameters to my back-end JS function:

//index.js

      <TextField
        id="field1"
        ...
      />

      <TextField
        id="field2"
        ...
      />

      <Button
      ...
      onClick={() => { printIt(document.getElementById('field1').value,
      document.getElementById('field2').value)    
      }}>


//printIt.js

export function printIt(text1, text2) {
console.log('on button clicked');
alert(text1);
alert(text2);
};

It works just fine.

Answer 2

Here all solutions are based on Class Component, but i guess most of the people who learned React recently (like me), at this time using functional Component. So here is the solution based on functional component.

Using useRef hooks of ReactJs and inputRef property of TextField.

    import React, { useRef, Component } from 'react'
    import { TextField, Button } from '@material-ui/core'
    import SendIcon from '@material-ui/icons/Send'

    export default function MultilineTextFields() {
    const valueRef = useRef('') //creating a refernce for TextField Component

    const sendValue = () => {
        return console.log(valueRef.current.value) //on clicking button accesing current value of TextField and outputing it to console 
    }

    return (
        <form noValidate autoComplete='off'>
        <div>
            <TextField
            id='outlined-textarea'
            label='Content'
            placeholder='Write your thoughts'
            multiline
            variant='outlined'
            rows={20}
            inputRef={valueRef}   //connecting inputRef property of TextField to the valueRef
            />
            <Button
            variant='contained'
            color='primary'
            size='small'
            endIcon={<SendIcon />}
            onClick={sendValue}
            >
            Send
            </Button>
        </div>
        </form>
    )
    }

Answer 3

use the accepted answer / this was the answer to another (already deleted) question

@karopastal

add a ref attribute to your <TextField /> component and call getValue() on it, like this:

Component:

<TextField ref="myField" />

Using getValue:

this.refs.myField.getValue()

Answer 4

Faced to this issue after a long time since question asked here. when checking material-ui code I found it's now accessible through inputRef property.

...
<CssTextField
  inputRef={(c) => {this.myRefs.username = c}}
  label="Username"
  placeholder="xxxxxxx"
  margin="normal"
  className={classes.textField}
  variant="outlined"
  fullWidth
/>
...

Then Access value like this.

  onSaveUser = () => {
    console.log('Saving user');
    console.log(this.myRefs.username.value);
  }