$refs

$refs is a magic property that can be used to retrieve DOM elements marked with x-ref inside the component. This is useful when you need to manually manipulate DOM elements. It's often used as a more succinct, scoped, alternative to document.querySelector.

<button @click="$refs.text.remove()">Remove Text</button>
 
<span x-ref="text">Hello 👋</span>

Now, when the <button> is pressed, the <span> will be removed.

Limitations

In V2 it was possible to bind $refs to elements dynamically, like seen below:

<template x-for="item in items" :key="item.id" >
    <div :x-ref="item.name">
    some content ...
    </div>
</template>

However, in V3, $refs can only be accessed for elements that are created statically. So for the example above: if you were expecting the value of item.name inside of $refs to be something like Batteries, you should be aware that $refs will actually contain the literal string 'item.name' and not Batteries.

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