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Is there a way to incorporate React's curly brace notation and an href tag? Say we have the following value in the state:

{this.state.id} 

and the following HTML attributes on a tag:

href="#demo1" id="demo1" 

Is there a way I can add the id state to the HTML attribute to get something like this:

href={"#demo + {this.state.id}"} 

Which will yield:

#demo1 
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You're almost correct, just misplaced a few quotes. Wrapping the whole thing in regular quotes will literally give you the string #demo + {this.state.id} - you need to indicate which are variables and which are string literals. Since anything inside {} is an inline JSX expression, you can do:

href={"#demo" + this.state.id} 

This will use the string literal #demo and concatenate it to the value of this.state.id. This can then be applied to all strings. Consider this:

var text = "world"; 

And this:

{"Hello " + text + " Andrew"} 

This will yield:

Hello world Andrew 

You can also use ES6 string interpolation/template literals with ` (backticks) and ${expr} (interpolated expression), which is closer to what you seem to be trying to do:

href={`#demo${this.state.id}`} 

This will basically substitute the value of this.state.id, concatenating it to #demo. It is equivalent to doing: "#demo" + this.state.id.

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Implementing the first, eslint suggested implementing your second, use string literal templates. eslint.org/docs/rules/prefer-template
@w00ngy Yes, you should. ES2015 (which introduced templates) was just starting to get widespread adoption. Nowadays, template literals are the go to.
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the best way to concat props/variables:

var sample = "test"; var result = `this is just a ${sample}`; //this is just a test 

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If u want to do it in JSX

<button className={`tab__btn first ${props.state}`} > {props.text} </button> 

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you can simply do this..

 <img src={"http://img.example.com/test/" + this.props.url +"/1.jpg"}/> 

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for Concatenating variables and strings in React with map , for exmple :

{listOfCategories.map((Categories, key) => { return ( <a href={`#${Categories.designation}`} className="cat-link" key={key}> </div> </a> ); })} 

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