useCurrentElement

Category

Component

Export Size

355 B

Last Changed

last week

Get the DOM element of current component as a ref.

Demo

source

Open your console.log to see the element

Usage

import { useCurrentElement } from '@vueuse/core'

const el = useCurrentElement() // ComputedRef<Element>

Or pass a specific vue component

<script setup>
import { ref } from 'vue'
import { useCurrentElement } from '@vueuse/core'

const componentRef = ref()

const el = useCurrentElement(componentRef) // ComputedRef<Element>
</script>

<template>
  <div>
    <OtherVueComponent ref="componentRef" />
    <p>Hello world</p>
  </div>
</template>

INFO

Only works for Vue 3 because it uses computedWithControl under the hood

Caveats

This functions uses $el under the hood.

Value of the ref will be undefined until the component is mounted.

• For components with a single root element, it will point to that element.
• For components with text root, it will point to the text node.
• For components with multiple root nodes, it will be the placeholder DOM node that Vue uses to keep track of the component's position in the DOM.

It's recommend to only use this function for components with a single root element.

Type Declarations

export declare function useCurrentElement<
  T extends MaybeElement = MaybeElement,
  R extends VueInstance = VueInstance,
>(rootComponent?: MaybeElementRef<R>): ComputedRefWithControl<T>

Source

Source • Demo • Docs

Contributors

Jessé Correia Lins

vaakian X

Anthony Fu

Changelog

v10.8.0 on 2/20/2024

0a9aa - feat: Allow get current element from a specific component (#3750)

v9.1.1 on 8/23/2022

c534e - fix(useActiveElement): use computedWithControl instead of counter ref (#2093)