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JavaScript

Cezary Burzykowski
Cezary Burzykowski
18,291 Points
Posted by Cezary Burzykowski
Cezary Burzykowski
18,291 Points

React: onClick on Anchor element doesn't seem to work

I'm learning React for some time now and I have encountered a strange problem that I have troubles solving. It's pretty simple: onClick on my Anchor element doesn't seem to work.

Here is my code:

var Tabs = React.createClass ({
    propTypes: {
        onTabClick: React.PropTypes.func.isRequired,
        tabName: React.PropTypes.string.isRequired,
    },
    render: function() {
        return (
          <li className="nav-item">
            <a id="user-list-tab" className="nav-link tab-link" href="#" onClick={event => this.props.onTabClick(event)}>{this.props.tabName}</a>
          </li>
        );
    }
})



var TabsNav = React.createClass ({
    getInitialState: function() {
        return {
            tabs: [
            {name: "Users list", isActive: false, key: 1},
            {name: "Create new user", isActive: false, key: 2},
            ],
        }
    },
    showTabContent: function(event) {
        console.log("it works");
        event.preventDefault();
    },
    render: function() {
        return (
        <ul className="nav nav-tabs justify-content-center">
            {this.state.tabs.map(function(element, index) {
                return <Tabs tabName={element.name} className={element.isActive ? "nav-item active" : "nav-item"} onTabClick={this.showTabContent} key={element.key} />
            }.bind(this))}
        </ul>
        );
    }
})

When I click on the link nothing seems to happen ....

I have no error in my console, it just seem that it doesn't work because it does not log "it works" on the onClick....

I would really appreciate any help