diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 4a27bc0..9182ea3 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ YAML = "ddb6d928-2868-570f-bddf-ab3f9cf99eb6"
 [compat]
 Aqua = "0.6"
 CodecZlib = "0.6, 0.7"
-DashBase = "0.2"
+DashBase = "0.2.1"
 DashCoreComponents = "2.0.0"
 DashHtmlComponents = "2.0.0"
 DashTable = "5.0.0"
diff --git a/src/app/dashapp.jl b/src/app/dashapp.jl
index 92fccce..7c050b3 100644
--- a/src/app/dashapp.jl
+++ b/src/app/dashapp.jl
@@ -40,27 +40,6 @@ mutable struct DashApp
 
 end
 
-const VecChildTypes = Union{NTuple{N, DashBase.Component} where {N}, Vector{<:DashBase.Component}}
-
-function Base.getindex(component::DashBase.Component, id::AbstractString)
-  component.id == id && return component
-  hasproperty(component, :children) || return nothing
-  cc = component.children
-  return if cc isa Union{VecChildTypes, DashBase.Component}
-        cc[id]
-    elseif cc isa AbstractVector
-        identity.(filter(x->hasproperty(x, :id), cc))[id]
-    else
-        nothing
-    end
-end
-function Base.getindex(children::VecChildTypes, id::AbstractString)
-  for element in children
-    element.id == id && return element
-    el = element[id]
-    el !== nothing && return el
-  end
-end
 
 #only name, index_string and layout are available to set
 function Base.setproperty!(app::DashApp, property::Symbol, value)
diff --git a/test/core.jl b/test/core.jl
index fd9f030..99370b2 100644
--- a/test/core.jl
+++ b/test/core.jl
@@ -201,17 +201,3 @@ end
     @test_throws ErrorException make_handler(app)
 end
 
-@testset "Index by id" begin
-    app = dash()
-    app.layout = html_div() do
-            dcc_input(id = "my-id", value="initial value", type = "text"),
-            html_div(id = "my-div", children = [
-                html_div(),
-                "string",
-                html_div(id = "target")
-            ]),
-            html_div(id = "my-div2")
-        end
-    @test app.layout["target"].id == "target"
-    @test app.layout["ups"] === nothing
-end