.ref on mounted component returns HTML-Element instead of ReactWrapper

Current behavior

Imagine a component that renders a div with 3 anchor elements inside, each with their ref:

<div>
  <a ref="element1" onClick="..."></a>
  <a ref="element2" onClick="..."></a>
  <a ref="element3" onClick="..."></a>
</div>

And you want to simulate an onclick behavior in a jest test.

So I mount the component: var sut = mount(<Component>);

And then when I get the element wit hthe '.ref()' function, it does not return a ReactWrapper, but an HTMLAnchorElement, which does not have a .simulate or .prop?

However, the following does return a nice ReactWrapper and works as I wanted, but is not nice: sut.find('a').at(0).simulate('click');

My best guess is that I do something wrong, but please forgive me if it is something silly.

Expected behavior

As the documentation says, return a ReactWrapper so I can act on it?

Your environment

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API

• shallow
• mount
• render

Version

library	version
Enzyme	3.3.0
React	16.2.0
Jest	16.2.0
enzyme-adapter-react-16	1.1.1

Adapter

• enzyme-adapter-react-16
• enzyme-adapter-react-15
• enzyme-adapter-react-15.4
• enzyme-adapter-react-14
• enzyme-adapter-react-13
• enzyme-adapter-react-helper
• others ( )