# React Native UI element access via testID

**URL:** <https://discuss.appium.io/t/react-native-ui-element-access-via-testid/7845>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [January 8, 2016, 2:25pm UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/react-native-ui-element-access-via-testid/7845 "2016-01-08T14:25:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![fangmobile](https://discuss.appium.io/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/c77e96/32.png) [@fangmobile](https://discuss.appium.io/u/fangmobile)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 8:22am UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/react-native-ui-element-access-via-testid/7845/5 "2016-01-14T08:22:47Z")

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React Native put testID into the tag of view, and accessibilityLabel into content description:

> <https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/BaseViewManager.java#L72~L80>

I don’t think Appium can get info from tag, am I right?

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