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Xela0000
Xela0000

Reputation: 71

Can a child component have multiple parent components?

I was wondering can a child component have multiple parent components and if this should be done? so for example

<parent1 /> ------> <theChild />
<parent2 /> ------>

both call theChild component separately. Any advice would be much appreciated. Thank you

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1713

Answers (1)

azium
azium

Reputation: 20634

All children in React can only have one parent. Think of a div. Everything inside the div are its children or grandchildren, but the things inside that div cannot be inside a different div, they are inside that one.

However the same function or class that the component is created from can be called / instantiated and rendered by different parents creating different children of the same type, each with their own unique state, variables and functions or methods.

Upvotes: 2

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