How do I conditionally add attributes to React components

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Is there a way to only add attributes to a React component if a certain condition is met?

I'm supposed to add required and readOnly attributes to form elements based on an Ajax call after render, but I can't see how to solve this since readOnly="false" is not the same as omitting the attribute completely.

The example below should explain what I want, but it won't work (Parse Error: Unexpected identifier).

var React = require('React');

var MyOwnInput = React.createClass({
    render: function () {
        return (
            <div>
                <input type="text" onChange={this.changeValue} value={this.getValue()} name={this.props.name}/>
            </div>
        );
    }
});

module.exports = React.createClass({
    getInitialState: function () {
        return {
            isRequired: false
        }
    },
    componentDidMount: function () {
        this.setState({
            isRequired: true
        });
    },
    render: function () {
        var isRequired = this.state.isRequired;

        return (
            <MyOwnInput name="test" {isRequired ? "required" : ""} />
        );
    }
});
Jul 22, 2020 in Angular by kartik
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1 answer to this question.

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Hello @kartik,

For certain attributes, React is intelligent enough to omit the attribute if the value you pass to it is not truthy. For example:

var InputComponent = React.createClass({
    render: function() {
        var required = true;
        var disabled = false;

        return (
            <input type="text" disabled={disabled} required={required} />
        );
    }
});

will result in:

<input type="text" required>

Hope it helps!!

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answered Jul 22, 2020 by Niroj
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