document.getElementById replacement in angular4 / typescript?

I'm working with angular4 in my practice work, and this is new for me.

In order to get HTML elements and their values, I used <HTMLInputElement> document.getElementById or <HTMLSelectElement> document.getElementById.

I'm wondering if there is any replacement for this in angular.

You can tag your DOM element using #someTag, then get it with @ViewChild('someTag').

See complete example:

import {AfterViewInit, Component, ElementRef, ViewChild} from '@angular/core';

@Component({
    selector: 'app',
    template: `
        <div #myDiv>Some text</div>
    `,
})
export class AppComponent implements AfterViewInit {
    @ViewChild('myDiv') myDiv: ElementRef;

    ngAfterViewInit() {
        console.log(this.myDiv.nativeElement.innerHTML);
    }
}

console.log will print Some text.

You can just inject the DOCUMENT token into the constructor and use the same functions on it

import { Inject }  from '@angular/core';
import { DOCUMENT } from '@angular/common'; 

@Component({...})
export class AppCmp {
   constructor(@Inject(DOCUMENT) document: Document) {
      document.getElementById('el');
   }
}

Or if the element you want to get is in that component, you can use template references.

For Angular 8 or posterior @ViewChild have an additional parameter called opts, which have two properties: read and static, read is optional. You can use it like so:

import { ElementRef, ViewChild } from '@angular/core';
// ...
@ViewChild('mydiv', { static: false }) public mydiv: ElementRef;

constructor() {
// ...

<div #mydiv></div>

NOTE: Static: false is not required anymore in Angular 9. (just { static: true } when you are going to use that variable inside ngOnInit)

Try this:

TypeScript file code:

(<HTMLInputElement>document.getElementById("name")).value

HTML code:

 <input id="name" type="text" #name /> 

  element: HTMLElement;

  constructor() {}

  fakeClick(){
    this.element = document.getElementById('ButtonX') as HTMLElement;
    this.element.click();
  }