diff --git a/ui/component/button/view.jsx b/ui/component/button/view.jsx
index 4220c2ef7..e42b05750 100644
--- a/ui/component/button/view.jsx
+++ b/ui/component/button/view.jsx
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 // @flow
 import type { Node } from 'react';
-import React, { forwardRef } from 'react';
+import React, { forwardRef, useRef } from 'react';
 import Icon from 'component/common/icon';
 import classnames from 'classnames';
 import { NavLink } from 'react-router-dom';
 import { formatLbryUriForWeb } from 'util/uri';
 import { OutboundLink } from 'react-ga';
 import * as PAGES from 'constants/pages';
+import useCombinedRefs from 'effects/use-combined-refs';
 
 type Props = {
   id: ?string,
@@ -86,6 +87,9 @@ const Button = forwardRef<any, {}>((props: Props, ref: any) => {
     className
   );
 
+  const innerRef = useRef(null);
+  const combinedRef = useCombinedRefs(ref, innerRef, myref);
+
   const content = (
     <span className="button__content">
       {icon && <Icon icon={icon} iconColor={iconColor} size={iconSize} />}
@@ -117,7 +121,7 @@ const Button = forwardRef<any, {}>((props: Props, ref: any) => {
   if (requiresAuth && !emailVerified) {
     return (
       <NavLink
-        ref={ref}
+        ref={combinedRef}
         exact
         onClick={e => {
           e.stopPropagation();
@@ -135,7 +139,7 @@ const Button = forwardRef<any, {}>((props: Props, ref: any) => {
 
   return path ? (
     <NavLink
-      ref={ref}
+      ref={combinedRef}
       exact
       to={path}
       title={title}
@@ -153,7 +157,7 @@ const Button = forwardRef<any, {}>((props: Props, ref: any) => {
     </NavLink>
   ) : (
     <button
-      ref={ref}
+      ref={combinedRef}
       title={title}
       aria-label={description || label || title}
       className={combinedClassName}
diff --git a/ui/effects/use-combined-refs.js b/ui/effects/use-combined-refs.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..49a6a7ffe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ui/effects/use-combined-refs.js
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+import React from 'react';
+
+export default function useCombinedRefs(...refs) {
+  const targetRef = React.useRef();
+
+  React.useEffect(() => {
+    refs.forEach(ref => {
+      if (!ref) return;
+
+      if (typeof ref === 'function') {
+        ref(targetRef.current);
+      } else {
+        ref.current = targetRef.current;
+      }
+    });
+  }, [refs]);
+
+  return targetRef;
+}
+
+/*
+Problem described in
+https://itnext.io/reusing-the-ref-from-forwardref-with-react-hooks-4ce9df693dd
+ */