I'm having trouble getting menu items connected to an event handler. Here's a mock of the UI showing state changes over time. It's a dropdown menu (via Bootstrap), with the root menu item showing the current selection:
[ANN]<click ... [ANN] ... [BOB]<click ... [BOB]
[Ann] [Ann]
[Bob]<click + ajax [Bob]
[Cal] [Cal]
The end goal is to change the page content asynchronously based on the user's selection. Clicking on Bob should trigger the handleClick
, but it's not.
As a side note, I'm not terribly happy with the way componentDidMount calls this.handleClick();
, but it works for now as a way to get initial menu content from the server.
/** @jsx React.DOM */
var CurrentSelection = React.createClass({
componentDidMount: function() {
this.handleClick();
},
handleClick: function(event) {
alert('clicked');
// Ajax details ommitted since we never get here via onClick
},
getInitialState: function() {
return {title: "Loading items...", items: []};
},
render: function() {
var itemNodes = this.state.items.map(function (item) {
return <li key={item}><a href='#' onClick={this.handleClick}>{item}</a></li>;
});
return <ul className='nav'>
<li className='dropdown'>
<a href='#' className='dropdown-toggle' data-toggle='dropdown'>{this.state.title}</a>
<ul className='dropdown-menu'>{itemNodes}</ul>
</li>
</ul>;
}
});
$(document).ready(function() {
React.renderComponent(
CurrentSelection(),
document.getElementById('item-selection')
);
});
I'm almost positive that my hazy understanding of javascript scoping is to blame, but everything I've tried so far has failed (including trying to pass the handler down through props).