From 62c86a65a9c0a49d739e58cc1c27694b0e48a189 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Omid Hezaveh <omidfi@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 15:33:12 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Explain arbitrariness of ref name in callback (#8913)

* Explain arbitrariness of ref name in callback

The sample code was confusing because it's not clear that "textInput" in this.textInput is an arbitrary name for the ref.

* Tweak wording
---
 docs/refs-and-the-dom.md | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/refs-and-the-dom.md b/docs/refs-and-the-dom.md
index 50e800e2..6351d71b 100644
--- a/docs/refs-and-the-dom.md
+++ b/docs/refs-and-the-dom.md
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ class CustomTextInput extends React.Component {
 
   render() {
     // Use the `ref` callback to store a reference to the text input DOM
-    // element in this.textInput.
+    // element in an instance field (for example, this.textInput).
     return (
       <div>
         <input