I want to change remove a certain tag with an id in the html page, eg.<div id="theid"><p>sometext</p></div>
Is there any ways to do it with react js? I know I can do it with javascript by document.getElementById("theid").remove();, how can I do it in the react way? I don’t need a button or anything, just simply remove it when the page loads. I’d prefer methods without importing any modules or libraries if possible. Thank you.
>Solution :
You should likely use a ref:
https://reactjs.org/docs/refs-and-the-dom.html
So you attach the ref to the DOM element, then you can imperatively remove that element just like you specified.
So in the component function body:
const myRef = useRef();
Then in the component render:
<Component ref={myRef} />
Then you can use the code in your question to remove the element from the DOM.
ref.remove();
If you need to do it when the page loads look at using useEffect to achieve this. Although if you’re removing an element on page load, I question why you even need the element there in the first place ;).