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JavaScript

useState hook setting different value than what is passed into setState()

have a select menu with some options. When I change the option in select menu I am setting the state of currentValue using setNewValue(event.target.value) and logging the new value of variable to the console.

However the value set for the variable is different from the value I am passing into setNewValue.

const classGrades = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
let [classGrade, setClassGrade] = useState(1)
let classSelect = () => {
return (
        <div>
            <select value={classGrade} onChange={(e) => {
                setClassGrade(e.target.value)
                console.log(`I selected ${e.target.value}, so classgrade is now ${classGrade}`)
            }}>
                {classGrades.map(g => <option key={g} value={g}>{g}</option>)}
            </select>
        </div>
    )
}

1 Answer

Clayton Perszyk
MOD
Clayton Perszyk
Treehouse Moderator 48,850 Points

Hey Abhimanu,,

Try the below:

import React, { useState } from 'react' // useState needs to be imported
const classGrades = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
export const ClassSelect = () => { // name should be PascalCase
let [classGrade, setClassGrade] = useState(1) // this needs to be in the component function as per hook rules
return (
        <div>
            <select value={classGrade} onChange={(e) => {
                setClassGrade(e.target.value)
                console.log(`I selected ${e.target.value}`)
            }}>
                {console.log(`so classgrade is now ${classGrade}`)}
                {classGrades.map(g => <option key={g} value={g}>{g}</option>)}
            </select>
        </div>
    )
}

I think that in the callback classGrade is still the previous vailue.... If you add console logs as above, you'll see it is the correct value.

Hook rules reference: https://legacy.reactjs.org/docs/hooks-rules.html