Control from external elements

I’m building a simple touchscreen interface that uses some divs arranged as a number pad (like a telephone) to change the value of the phone input field in addition to the hardware keyboard. Since this library cleans up numbers before they hit my onChange function, I’d love a way to hook into that same parsing function that exists in the instance of PhoneInput that is already in my component. Does something like this exist? If not, what’s my best option for making my external phone number input controls behave like onChange events natively originating inside of the input inside PhoneInput?

Sorry if this is unclear, let me know if you need more explanation.

[subvertallchris]

Got it, thank you. I’ll stick with what I have but it might be worth adding this behavior. It would be very helpful for myself and others.

[catamphetamine]

A sidenote: version 3.x has been released, that forwards ref to the <input/>. Perhaps hypothetically theoretically something like emulating change event could be used in such situations: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2856513/how-can-i-trigger-an-onchange-event-manually