[react-native] react native get TextInput value

I am stuck with a very simple problem. I have login form with username, password and button. In my button handler, I try to get the textinput value. But always get undefined value. Am I missing something?

render() {
        <ExScreen
          headerColor={this.state.headerColor}
          scrollEnabled={this.state.enableScroll}
          style={styles.container} >
          <View >
            <View  >
              <View style={[styles.inputContainer]} >
                <TextInput
                  ref= "username"
                  onChangeText={(text) => this.setState({text})}
                  value={this.state.username}
                />
              </View>
 <Button style={{color: 'white', marginTop: 30, borderWidth: 1, borderColor: 'white', marginLeft: 20*vw, marginRight: 20*vw, height: 40, padding: 10}} 
             onPress={this._handlePress.bind(this)}>
              Sign In
            </Button>   
...
 _handlePress(event) {
    var username=this.refs.username.value;

This piece of code worked for me. What I was missing was I was not passing 'this' in button action:

 onPress={this._handlePress.bind(this)}>
--------------

  _handlePress(event) {
console.log('Pressed!');

 var username = this.state.username;
 var password = this.state.password;

 console.log(username);
 console.log(password);
}

  render() {
    return (
      <View style={styles.container}>

      <TextInput
      ref="usr"
      style={{height: 40, borderColor: 'gray', borderWidth: 1 , marginTop: 10 , padding : 10 , marginLeft : 5 , marginRight : 5 }}
      placeHolder= "Enter username "
      placeholderTextColor = '#a52a2a'

      returnKeyType = {"next"}
      autoFocus = {true}
      autoCapitalize = "none"
      autoCorrect = {false}
      clearButtonMode = 'while-editing'
      onChangeText={(text) => {
          this.setState({username:text});
        }}
      onSubmitEditing={(event) => {
     this.refs.psw.focus();

      }}
      />

      <TextInput
      ref="psw"
      style={{height: 40, borderColor: 'gray', borderWidth: 1 , marginTop: 10,marginLeft : 5 , marginRight : 5}}
      placeholder= "Enter password"
      placeholderTextColor = '#a52a2a'
      autoCapitalize = "none"
      autoCorrect = {false}
      returnKeyType = {'done'}
      secureTextEntry = {true}
      clearButtonMode = 'while-editing'
      onChangeText={(text) => {
          this.setState({password:text});
        }}
      />

      <Button
        style={{borderWidth: 1, borderColor: 'blue'}}
        onPress={this._handlePress.bind(this)}>
        Login
      </Button>

      </View>
    );``
  }
}

If you are like me and doesn't want to use or pollute state for one-off components here's what I did:

export default class Registartion extends Component {
  _register = () => {
    const payload = {
      firstName: this.firstName,
      /* other values */
    }

    console.log(payload)
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <RegisterLayout>
        <Text style={styles.welcome}>
          Register
        </Text>

        <InputText
          placeholder="First Name"
          onChangeText={(text) => this.firstName = text} />
        // More components...
        <CustomButton
          backgroundColor="steelblue"
          handlePress={this._register}>
          Submit
        </CustomButton>
     </RegisterLayout>
    )
  }
}

Simply do it.

this.state={f_name:""};

textChangeHandler = async (key, val) => {
    await this.setState({ [key]: val });
}

<Textfield onChangeText={val => this.textChangeHandler('f_name', val)}>

Please take care on how to use setState(). The correct form is

this.setState({
      Key: Value,
    });

And so I would do it as follows:

onChangeText={(event) => this.setState({username:event.nativeEvent.text})}
...    
var username=this.state.username;

constructor(props) {
        super(props);

        this.state ={
            commentMsg: ''         
        }
    }

 onPress = () => {
          alert("Hi " +this.state.commentMsg)
      }

 <View style={styles.sendCommentContainer}>

     <TextInput
        style={styles.textInput}
        multiline={true}
        onChangeText={(text) => this.setState({commentMsg: text})}
        placeholder ='Comment'/>

       <Button onPress={this.onPress} 
           title="OK!"
           color="#841584"
        />

  </TouchableOpacity>

</View>

If you set the text state, why not use that directly?

_handlePress(event) {
  var username=this.state.text;

Of course the variable naming could be more descriptive than 'text' but your call.

Every thing is OK for me by this procedure:

<Input onChangeText={this.inputOnChangeText} />

and also:

inputOnChangeText = (e) => {
  this.setState({
    username: e
  })
}

In React Native 0.43: (Maybe later than 0.43 is OK.)

_handlePress(event) {
    var username= this.refs.username._lastNativeText;

The quick and less optimized way to do this is by using arrow function inside your onChangeText callback, by passing username as your argument in your onChangeText callback.

<TextInput
    ref= {(el) => { this.username = el; }}
    onChangeText={(username) => this.setState({username})}
    value={this.state.username}
/>

then in your _handlePress method

_handlePress(event) {
    let username=this.state.username;
}

But this has several drawback!!!

1. On every render of this component a new arrow function is created.
2. If the child component is a PureComponent it will force re-renders unnecessarily, this causes huge performance issue especially when dealing with large lists, table, or component iterated over large numbers. More on this in React Docs

Best practice is to use a handler like handleInputChange and bind ```this`` in the constructor.

...
constructor(props) {
  super(props);
  this.handleChange= this.handleChange.bind(this);
}

...
handleChange(event = {}) {
  const name = event.target && event.target.name;
  const value = event.target && event.target.value;

  this.setState([name]: value);
}
...

render() {
  ...
  <TextInput
    name="username"
    onChangeText={this.handleChange}
    value={this.state.username}
  />
  ...
}

...

Or if you are using es6 class property shorthand which autobinds this. But this has drawbacks, when it comes to testing and performance. Read More Here

...
handleChange= (event = {}) => {
  const name = event.target && event.target.name;
  const value = event.target && event.target.value;

  this.setState([name]: value);
}
...

render() {
  ...
  <TextInput
    name="username"
    onChangeText={this.handleChange}
    value={this.state.username}
  />
  ...
}

...

Try Console log the object and you will find your entered text inside nativeEvent.text

example:

handelOnChange = (enteredText) => {
    console.log(enteredText.nativeEvent.text)
}
render()
return (
    <SafeAreaView>
        <TextInput
            onChange={this.handelOnChange}
        >
</SafeAreaView>

)

User in the init of class:

constructor() {
    super()
    this.state = {
        email: ''
    }
}

Then in some function:

handleSome = () => { console.log(this.state.email) };

And in the input:

<TextInput onChangeText={(email) => this.setState({email})}/>

This work for me

    <Form>

    <TextInput
    style={{height: 40}}
    placeholder="userName"
    onChangeText={(text) => this.userName = text}
    />

    <TextInput
    style={{height: 40}}
    placeholder="Password"
    onChangeText={(text) => this.Password = text}
    />


    <Button 
    title="Sign in!" 
    onPress={this._signInAsync} 
    />

    </Form>

and

  _signInAsync = async () => {
        console.log(this.userName)
        console.log(this.Password) 
  };

There is huge difference between onChange and onTextChange prop of <TextInput />. Don't be like me and use onTextChange which returns string and don't use onChange which returns full objects.

I feel dumb for spending like 1 hour figuring out where is my value.

Did you try

var username=this.state.username;

You should use States to store the value of input fields. https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/state.html

• To update state values use setState

onChangeText={(value) => this.setState({username: value})}

• and get input value like this

this.state.username

Sample code

export default class Login extends Component {

    state = {
        username: 'demo',
        password: 'demo'
    };

    <Text style={Style.label}>User Name</Text>
    <TextInput
        style={Style.input}
        placeholder="UserName"
        onChangeText={(value) => this.setState({username: value})}
        value={this.state.username}
    />

    <Text style={Style.label}>Password</Text>
    <TextInput
        style={Style.input}
        placeholder="Password"
        onChangeText={(value) => this.setState({password: value})}
        value={this.state.password}
    />

    <Button
        title="LOGIN"
        onPress={() => 
            {
                if(this.state.username.localeCompare('demo')!=0){
                    ToastAndroid.show('Invalid UserName',ToastAndroid.SHORT);
                    return;
                }

                if(this.state.password.localeCompare('demo')!=0){
                    ToastAndroid.show('Invalid Password',ToastAndroid.SHORT);
                    return;
                }

                //Handle LOGIN

            }
        }
    />

export default class App extends Component {_x000D_
  state = { username: '', password: '' }_x000D_
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  onChangeText = (key, val) => {_x000D_
    this.setState({ [key]: val})_x000D_
  }_x000D_
  _x000D_
  render() { _x000D_
    return (_x000D_
      <View style={styles.container}>_x000D_
          <Text>Login Form</Text>_x000D_
          <TextInput_x000D_
            placeholder='Username'_x000D_
            onChangeText={val => this.onChangeText('username', val)}_x000D_
            style={styles.input}_x000D_
          />_x000D_
          <TextInput_x000D_
            placeholder='Password'_x000D_
            onChangeText={val => this.onChangeText('password', val)}_x000D_
            style={styles.input}_x000D_
            secureTextEntry={true}_x000D_
          />      _x000D_
      </View>_x000D_
    );_x000D_
  }_x000D_
}

Hope this will solve your problem