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title: Event
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ReasonReact events map cleanly to ReactJS [synthetic events](https://reactjs.org/docs/events.html). More info in the [inline docs](https://github.com/reasonml/reason-react/blob/380358e5894d4223e7dd9c1fb2df72f0756231bc/src/reactEventRe.rei#L1).

If you're accessing fields on your event object, like `event.target.value`, you'd use a combination of a `ReactDOMRe` helper and [BuckleScript's `##` object access FFI](https://bucklescript.github.io/docs/en/object.html#accessors):

```reason
ReactDOMRe.domElementToObj(ReactEventRe.Form.target(event))##value;
```

More info on the `ReactDOMRe` module below in the [Working with DOM](dom.md) section.