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Introduce non case sensitive matching for cy.contains()

See original GitHub issue

Current behavior:

cy.contains('Capital Sentence') does not match

<span class="capitalize"> capital sentence </span>

where:

.capitalize {
   text-transform: capitalize;
}

Is this expected?

Desired behavior:

I assumed it would match because that’s what the user sees. However the underlying text in the DOM is indeed capital sentence.

Steps to reproduce:

Versions

Cypress: 3.0.1 Chrome, Mac OS Mojave

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State:
Created 5 years ago
Reactions:9
Comments:10 (4 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

11reactions

Bahaa-Addincommented, Jun 11, 2019

I solved it using a regex with i flag for case insensitive : cy.contains(/capital sentence/i)

8reactions

vedmantcommented, Feb 7, 2019

I’d also need case insensitive contains method, maybe add some options to it?

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