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Expand Up @@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ After building your component, you may find yourself wanting to "reach out" and

Let's look at how to get a ref, and then dive into a complete example.

> Important:
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> `ref` attributes do **not work** on [stateless functional components](/react/docs/reusable-components.html#stateless-functions)

## The ref returned from ReactDOM.render

Not to be confused with the `render()` function that you define on your component (and which returns a virtual DOM element), [ReactDOM.render()](/react/docs/top-level-api.html#reactdom.render) will return a reference to your component's **backing instance** (or `null` for [stateless components](/react/docs/reusable-components.html#stateless-functions)).
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