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JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:
Describe your issue in detail here.

  **Your code so far**


const inputStyle = {
width: 235,
margin: 5
};

class MagicEightBall extends React.Component {
constructor(props) {
  super(props);
  this.state = {
    userInput: '',
    randomIndex: ''
  };
  this.ask = this.ask.bind(this);
  this.handleChange = this.handleChange.bind(this);
}
ask() {
  if (this.state.userInput) {
    this.setState({
      randomIndex: Math.floor(Math.random() * 20),
      userInput: ''
    });
  }
}
handleChange(event) {
  this.setState({
    userInput: event.target.value
  });
}
render() {
  const possibleAnswers = [
    'It is certain',
    'It is decidedly so',
    'Without a doubt',
    'Yes, definitely',
    'You may rely on it',
    'As I see it, yes',
    'Outlook good',
    'Yes',
    'Signs point to yes',
    'Reply hazy try again',
    'Ask again later',
    'Better not tell you now',
    'Cannot predict now',
    'Concentrate and ask again',
    "Don't count on it",
    'My reply is no',
    'My sources say no',
    'Most likely',
    'Outlook not so good',
    'Very doubtful'
  ];
  const answer = 'change me!'; // Change this line
  return (
    <div>
      <input
        type='text'
        value={this.state.userInput}
        onChange={this.handleChange}
        style={inputStyle}
      />
      <br />
      <button onClick={this.ask}>Ask the Magic Eight Ball!</button>
      <br />
      <h3>Answer:</h3>
      <p>
        {/* Change code below this line */}
const answer = possibleAnswers[this.state.randomIndex];

        {/* Change code above this line */}
      </p>
    </div>
  );
}
}

  **Your browser information:**

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/100.0.4896.75 Safari/537.36

Challenge: Use Advanced JavaScript in React Render Method

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Hi @0anirudhalama !

Welcome back to the forum!

When asking questions on the forum, please use a descriptive title so we know how to help you.

As for the challenge, please reread the first sentence of the challenge more carefully.
That should help you solve the problem.

Hope that helps!

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