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emptyother • 
const textBox = <HTMLInputElement>document.getElementById('txtTestName');
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You should probably use as instead:

const textBox = document.getElementById('txtTestName') as HTMLInputElement;
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It plays better with *.tsx files. And doesn't look like a generic type argument. Seen people mix those two up.