How to Find Your Elements by Text in Cypress
Ferenc Almasi • 2022 August 17 •
1 min read
You can use the cy.contains command in Cypress to find elements by their text content.
cy.contains('Text you are looking for')You can also combine this command with cy.get to narrow down your search and get a specific element with a text:
cy.get('button').contains('Learn more')
// In shorter form:
cy.contains('button', 'Learn more')You can also pass two parameters to cy.contains directly. One for the DOM selector, and a second string for the actual string content that you are looking for. The command can also be used case-insensitively by passing a configuration object with the matchCase property in the following way:
// Given the following HTML:
// <div>Case Sensitive</div>
// ❌ This will fail
cy.contains('case sensitive')
// ✅ This will pass
cy.contains('case sensitive', { matchCase: false })Want to learn Cypress from end to end? Check out my Cypress course on Educative where I cover everything:
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