Lightning Aura Components Developer Guide

Introducing Aura Components
Quick Start
Creating Components
Using Components
Communicating with Events
Communicating Across the DOM with Lightning Message Service
Creating Apps
Styling Apps
Developing Secure Code
Using JavaScript
Supported JavaScript
Invoking Actions on Component Initialization
Sharing JavaScript Code in a Component Bundle
Sharing JavaScript Code Across Components
Using External JavaScript Libraries
Dynamically Creating Components
Detecting Data Changes with Change Handlers
Finding Components by ID
Working with Attribute Values in JavaScript
Working with a Component Body in JavaScript
Working with Events in JavaScript
Modifying the DOM
Checking Component Validity
Modifying Components Outside the Framework Lifecycle
Throwing and Handling Errors
Calling Component Methods
Dynamically Adding Event Handlers To a Component
Dynamically Showing or Hiding Markup
Adding and Removing Styles
Which Button Was Pressed?
Formatting Dates in JavaScript
Using JavaScript Promises
Making API Calls from Components
Working with Salesforce Data
Testing Components
Debugging
Performance
Reference
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Finding Components by ID

Retrieve a component by its ID in JavaScript code.

Use aura:id to add a local ID of button1 to the lightning:button component.

1<lightning:button aura:id="button1" label="button1"/>

You can find the component by calling cmp.find("button1"), where cmp is a reference to the component containing the button. The find() function has one parameter, which is the local ID of a component within the markup.

find() returns different types depending on the result.

  • If the local ID is unique, find() returns the component.
  • If there are multiple components with the same local ID, find() returns an array of the components.
  • If there is no matching local ID, find() returns undefined.