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Allow to ignore special character sequences for cy.type

See original GitHub issue

Current behavior:

cy.type considers everything in {} as modifier sequence. In our app we have embedded code runner. For testing we put there code from fixtures with cy.type. And cy.type throws CypressError: Special character sequence: '{...}' is not recognized when code includes some braced expression.

Desired behavior:

Add option to cy.type to not treat {} as modifier sequence.

Versions

Cypress: 3.2.0

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Created 4 years ago
Comments:14 (7 by maintainers)

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jennifer-shehanecommented, Jun 21, 2019

Another pretty reasonable argument for allowing an options argument to turn off special chars https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/4491

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RubenGarciacommented, Jan 29, 2021

Can you also add documentation? A search for “parseSpecialCharacterSequences cypress” in google only returns this page. Edit: the option was renamed to parseSpecialCharSequences and is available at https://docs.cypress.io/api/commands/type.html#Arguments

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