Obtain reference to element angular 4 [duplicate]

Question

I have a component whos template looks like:

..blabla
 <img md-card-image src="..">
..blabla

How do I obtain a reference inside my component.ts so that I could change it's src using angular 4?

Answer 1

in HTML:

<img #img md-card-image src="..">

in TS:

@ViewChild('img') img: ElementRef;