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onClick handler not fired on children

See original GitHub issue

<Link to='/home' onClick={this.onItemClick}>
  <i className="fa fa-file"></i>   
  <span id='works'>Click me - I work!!</span>
  <Highlighter search={this.props.query} caseSensitive={false}>
    {this.props.name}
  </Highlighter>
</Link>

this.onItemClick is only invoked when clicking on span#works. However, clicking any of the elements from Highlighter doesn’t actually propagate the event in any way. I’ve found that it does work when I remove {'key': this.count} from the children in the array.

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Created 8 years ago
Reactions:3
Comments:7 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

ericgiocommented, Oct 29, 2017

As a workaround, you can set pointer-events: none on the highlighter component.

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janmylercommented, Aug 30, 2017

There’s a PR open https://github.com/helior/react-highlighter/pull/46 to fix it, however, it usually takes a rather long time to get anything merged.

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