From eac9de1b122f5480fd03f47e070a5518e6e7351a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Taylor Jones <tay1orjones@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 09:58:46 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix(textarea): persist onChange for React 16 (#14249)

Co-authored-by: Andrea N. Cardona <cardona.n.andrea@gmail.com>
---
 packages/react/src/components/TextArea/TextArea.tsx | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/packages/react/src/components/TextArea/TextArea.tsx b/packages/react/src/components/TextArea/TextArea.tsx
index 8605df43e3ea..d9a612e3febd 100644
--- a/packages/react/src/components/TextArea/TextArea.tsx
+++ b/packages/react/src/components/TextArea/TextArea.tsx
@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ const TextArea = React.forwardRef((props: TextAreaProps, forwardRef) => {
     id,
     onChange: (evt) => {
       if (!other.disabled && onChange) {
+        evt.persist();
         // delay textCount assignation to give the textarea element value time to catch up if is a controlled input
         setTimeout(() => {
           setTextCount(evt.target?.value?.length);