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Uncaught Error: Element ref was specified as a string (message) but no owner was set

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Hi,

I get the following error when trying to use MessageList from documentation (note: even without any change from documentation)

react-dom.development.js:13218 Uncaught Error: Element ref was specified as a string (message) but no owner was set. This could happen for one of the following reasons:
1. You may be adding a ref to a function component
2. You may be adding a ref to a component that was not created inside a component's render method
3. You have multiple copies of React loaded
See https://reactjs.org/link/refs-must-have-owner for more information.
    at coerceRef (react-dom.development.js:13218)
    at reconcileSingleElement (react-dom.development.js:14054)
    at reconcileChildFibers (react-dom.development.js:14112)
    at reconcileChildren (react-dom.development.js:16990)
    at finishClassComponent (react-dom.development.js:17511)
    at updateClassComponent (react-dom.development.js:17435)
    at beginWork (react-dom.development.js:19073)
    at HTMLUnknownElement.callCallback (react-dom.development.js:3945)
    at Object.invokeGuardedCallbackDev (react-dom.development.js:3994)
    at invokeGuardedCallback (react-dom.development.js:4056)

Anyone got any fix for this? screenshot screenshot2

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Created 2 years ago
Reactions:2
Comments:9 (3 by maintainers)

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emregudurcommented, Mar 9, 2022

Hi guys, this problem fixed on the new version. Checkout here pls click

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emregudurcommented, Feb 25, 2022

Hi, we tried to change components on react-chat-elements and you can see here.

We works on this problem and as soon as possible aim to fix this problem.

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