I believe the useRef hook is used for this problem: https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-reference.html#useref https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-reference.html#useref

I believe the useRef hook is used for this problem: https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-reference.html#useref https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-reference.html#useref The example even uses .focus()