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contains() not working with filter and RegExp

See original GitHub issue

Current behavior

The .contains() command currently only works when split into .get() and .contains() with Regular Expression.

Desired behavior

I’d like to use a single command to search for an element with a regular expression. The RegExp is needed to distinguish “edit & save” and “edit” f.e. without using an index. The single .contains() also works, when including the final html tag the text is within like so: main .container p

Test code to reproduce

it('on cypress website', () => {
    cy.visit('https://www.cypress.io/');
    cy.get('main .container').contains(new RegExp('^Cypress is the new standard in front-end testing that every developer and QA engineer needs.$', 'm'));
  });

works but this doesn’t:

it.only('on cypress', () => {
    cy.visit('https://www.cypress.io/');
    cy.contains('main .container', new RegExp('^Cypress is the new standard in front-end testing that every developer and QA engineer needs.$', 'm'));
  })

Cypress Version

8.7.0

Other

No response

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 2 years ago
Comments:5 (1 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

mjhenkescommented, Jan 5, 2022

@Maw-Jung, thanks for your reproducible code. I’ve been able to to recreate this in cypress 9.2.0.

additionally this test case works as expected

  it('it succeeds with a string', () => {
    cy.visit('https://www.cypress.io/');
    cy.contains('main .container', 'Cypress is the new standard in front-end testing that every developer and QA engineer needs.');
  });

The Contains code is located here: https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/blob/develop/packages/driver/src/cy/commands/querying.ts#L447

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Maw-Jungcommented, Jul 5, 2022

@sainthkh no worries, i wasn’t in time, either. The problem occurs with the generated tree, which i have no control over. Thus i can only identify reoccuring elements by content further down the node. I’ll try to add an simplified example: ul> li> span>banana</span /li> li> span>pineapple</span /li> /ul> I hope this makes it a bit more clear, i need to grab the li-elements by identifying the correct one by it’s content. This example clearly lacks all the boilerplate dom around the described nodes, but i think it works as an example. cy.contains('ul li', new RegExp('^pineapple$', 'm')); What i want this to find is the element containing ‘pineapple’ within the subtree of ‘ul li’ to achieve a better performance with big trees. Thanks for your response, hope this makes it any clearer.

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