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DOM elements not found in origin block

See original GitHub issue

Current behavior

I am using cy.origin() to login with an external login provider. My case is very similar to this block (taken from this issue)

it('client redirects to login page', () => {
  cy.visit('https://mydomain.com/page') // server responds with a 2xx status code and client redirects to anotherdomain.com/login

  cy.origin('https://anotherdomain.com', () => {
    // no visit is needed here since we've already been redirected
    // cy.visit('https://mydomain.com/page')

    // perform login steps
    cy.get('#login-button').click() // clicking login button redirects back to mydomain.com
  })

  cy.get('#user').should('contain', 'username')
})

However, the cy.get in the origin block (in this example cy.get(‘#login-button’).click()) always fails to find the relevant DOM element. If I run this statement outside of the origin block, the element is found successfully but the test fails later as I need this origin.

Desired behavior

cy.get should also be able to find the relevant element in the cy.origin block.

Test code to reproduce

const innerLogin = (url: string, username: string, password: string) => {
    cy.visit(`/Account/LogOn?returnUrl=${encodeURIComponent(url)}`); //will redirect to the Auth0 login page
    const args = { username, password };
    cy.origin(
        "_[auth0 tenant url]_",
        { args },
        ({ username, password }): void => {
            cy.get("input[id=username]").click().type(username); //this element cannot be found if statement is run in origin block
            cy.get("button[type=submit]").click();
            cy.get("input[id=password]").click().type(password);
            cy.get("button[type=submit]").click();
        }
    );
};