Id selection

[chenglou]

Did a search and didn't find any related issue, so here I go:
Apparently react, as of today, still hijacks the DOM element id (haven't gotten the chance to try it yet), rendering it a bit unpractical for CSS. I was wondering why this rather than using an attribute like data-react-uid. Is this a performance/compatibility issue? What's the motivation behind using the id internally to target elements instead of an attribute?

Sure, it's still possible to use classes, bit I think one less quirky gotcha like this would make react much more appealing.

[benjamn]

You're right!

I've been working on this problem recently, and I'm very close to a solution that will allow ATTR_NAME to be changed at will in this file: https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/a9b024330c/src/core/ReactID.js#L24

My plan was to use data-reactid, which is almost identical to your suggestion.

[hojberg]

+1

[benjamn]

This is in! 67cf44e