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ref to textarea throwing exception.

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
react, typescript
Domain
frontend

Research direction

Start by reproducing the sample with CodeEditor version 1.4.15 and inspect how the ref is handled when the button reads editorRef.current. Confirm what value the ref exposes and identify the exception; done means the ref can access the underlying textarea without throwing.

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Description

When trying to get ref to underlying textarea, it is returning some exception.

version: 1.4.15

sample code.

export function SimpleHTMLEditor() {

    const editorRef = React.useRef(false);

    const onBold = () => {
        // editorRef.current is pointing to some exception.
    };

    return (
        <>
            <button onClick={onBold} >bold text</button>
            <CodeEditor
                ref={editorRef}
                value={code}
                language="html"
                placeholder="Please enter HTML code."
            />
        </>
    );
}
Dominant language
TypeScript
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