This page covers a non-latest version of Handsontable.
# Referencing the Handsontable instance in React
# Overview
The following example implements the @handsontable/react
component showing how to reference the Handsontable instance from the wrapper component.
# Example
import React, { useRef } from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import { HotTable } from '@handsontable/react';
import Handsontable from 'handsontable';
const hotSettings = {
data: Handsontable.helper.createSpreadsheetData(4, 4),
colHeaders: true,
height: 'auto',
licenseKey: 'non-commercial-and-evaluation'
};
const App = () => {
const hotTableComponent = useRef(null);
const swapHotData = () => {
// The Handsontable instance is stored under the `hotInstance` property of the wrapper component.
hotTableComponent.current.hotInstance.loadData([['new', 'data']]);
};
return (
<div className="controls">
<HotTable ref={hotTableComponent} settings={hotSettings}/>
<br/>
<button onClick={swapHotData}>Load new data!</button>
</div>
);
}
ReactDOM.render(<App/>, document.getElementById('example1'));