Uncaught Error: react-modal: You must set an element with Modal.setAppElement(el)

[petrdamborsky]

Summary:

Just wanted to try this modal solution. Docs mention the setAppElement as an optional thing to do, but I am getting this error in console when I do not call it. I Have tried to call the Modal.setAppElement from the component itself and then also from the root app component. No place does help to get rid of this error.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create new component using Modal inside
2. Use the component in app
3. Get console error

Expected behavior:

I would expect not to be forced into setAppElement.

Additional notes:

[diasbruno]

@petrdamborsky yeah, you can't call setAppElement within the modal itself. It should be appended to document.body as default, if I'm correct. I'll check it.

[diasbruno]

@petrdamborsky since this issue is a bit old (sorry), did you found a way to make it work?

[petrdamborsky]

@diasbruno Hey, sorry I missed the notification. I have actually moved on and found different package with modals.

Oh and I was trying the setAppElement from the root component, not the modal itself.. still didn't work. Not sure what was wrong, but I won't be able to get back to that state now :)

[diasbruno]

that's ok.
thanks, @petrdamborsky.