How to get current element with mousOver React - javascript

I'm new in React, but I have some experience in JS.
My question is:
I have a function and I put this functions to onMouseOver event to element
<td> in current situation.
I want to get this current dom element and get index of this element next.
My code is bellow:
var Cell = function(k) {
function getIndex(cell){
console.log(cell)
}
return (
<td key ={k} onMouseOver={function() {getIndex(this)}}>
<div className="square__cell" ></div>
</td>
)
}
In js it works something like this. But now in React it returns me null.
If I put in console.log "1" for example it also works. So function is woks and I have only problem to get information about current element
Please help to find out how to do it.
Thanks.

You have to bind the function instead of creating new function so the context scope of component remains same
var Cell = function(k) {
function getIndex(cell){
console.log(cell)
}
return (
<td key ={k} onMouseOver={this.getIndex.bind(this,k)}}>
<div className="square__cell" ></div>
</td>
)
}

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