Issue with React challenge

Tell us what’s happening:
Hello!

I hope this is the right way to go about this. This isn’t so much an issue as it is a “heads up” of sorts to the fCC team. When I try to type into the <input> field that we create as part of this lesson, I get a browser error that reads as the following:

“Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading ‘value’)”

However, when I attempt to submit my code I get the success checkmark and it allows me to move onto the next lesson. It feels like there is a bug here?

I don’t see anything I’ve done wrong with the code itself, though am of course eager to find out if I’m missing something!

Any and all help will be greatly appreciated :slight_smile:

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    **Your code so far**
    
class ControlledInput extends React.Component {
constructor(props) {
  super(props);
  this.state = {
    input: ''
  };
  // Change code below this line
  this.handleChange = this.handleChange.bind(this);
  // Change code above this line
}
// Change code below this line
handleChange(event) {
  this.setState(state => ({
    input: event.target.value
  }))
}
// Change code above this line
render() {
  return (
    <div>
      { /* Change code below this line */}
      <input value={this.state.input} onChange={this.handleChange}/>
      { /* Change code above this line */}
      <h4>Controlled Input:</h4>
      <p>{this.state.input}</p>
    </div>
  );
}
};
  **Your browser information:**

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/102.0.5005.115 Safari/537.36

Challenge: Create a Controlled Input

Link to the challenge:

In React 16 event.target.value will be null inside a setState updater function.

I updated the hint thread with some information because we have gotten this question enough times that I think it is warranted.

I’m guessing the test doesn’t cause this error to be thrown because of how it is being mocked.

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