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Have .contains() strip new lines of targets.

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Description Sometimes when I issue .contains() commands with text I expect to be found, it doesn’t match my element as expected due to extra whitespace/new lines in my element.

Code

HTML

<h1>hello
world</h1>

Test

cy.contains("hello world") 
// CypressError: Timed out retrying: Expected to find content: 'hello world' but never did.

Web Page

Additional Info

Checking jQuery’s .text() in console, I see there is whitespace leading/trailing the actual text.

> $("h1").text()
> "hello
world"

Could it be possible to remove whitespace/new lines of el’s when trying to match with .contains?

Issue Analytics

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Created 8 years ago
Reactions:6
Comments:8 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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RhinocerosUnicorniscommented, Oct 24, 2019

A simple workaround for now is to use regex. For example, I have a span with “50 widgets” in HTML template like this:

<span id="my-quantity-of-widgets-a8bc90dd">50
widgets</span>

I can match it with contains still by shipping it a regex.

cy.get('span[id^="my-quantity-of-widgets-a8bc90dd"]').contains(/50(\s)*widgets/);

Relevant code chunk in the driver: https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/blob/e5c33fe56814c9559913d88f07086993cc0b9f39/packages/driver/src/cy/commands/querying.coffee#L291

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jennifer-shehanecommented, Feb 10, 2020

Released in 4.0.0.

This comment thread has been locked. If you are still experiencing this issue after upgrading to Cypress v4.0.0, please open a new issue.

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