From 95d0b70cb618b11d4dca6b9982349c3253f813d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt Gallo <mdgallo@us.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 16:55:16 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix: provide default value in web terminal

---
 .../ibm-products/src/components/WebTerminal/WebTerminal.tsx     | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/packages/ibm-products/src/components/WebTerminal/WebTerminal.tsx b/packages/ibm-products/src/components/WebTerminal/WebTerminal.tsx
index e4ca4df6cc..4b31cea892 100644
--- a/packages/ibm-products/src/components/WebTerminal/WebTerminal.tsx
+++ b/packages/ibm-products/src/components/WebTerminal/WebTerminal.tsx
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ export let WebTerminal = React.forwardRef(
     }: WebTerminalProps,
     ref: ForwardedRef<HTMLDivElement>
   ) => {
-    const localRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement>();
+    const localRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement | null>(null);
     const webTerminalRef = (ref ??
       localRef) as MutableRefObject<HTMLElementStyled>;