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[solved] I get an error message if I don't prepend calls to findBy... with a get('body') call

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cypress-testing-library version: ^6.0.0
node version: v10.21.0
npm (or yarn) version: 1.22.4 (yarn)

Relevant code or config

    cy.visit('/email-verified')
      .findByText(/okay/i)

What you did:

I visit a page and call findByText

What happened:

I get the following error message:

Timed out retrying: Expected container to be an Element, a Document or a DocumentFragment but got Window.

If I call get('body') before calling findByText it works:

    cy.visit('/email-verified')
      .get('body')
      .findByText(/okay/i)

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

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dutzicommented, Jun 23, 2020

Just posted this for anyone encoutering this. Turns out cypress-testing-library no longer supports chaining commands, so you have to write something like:

cy.visit('/page');
cy.findByText(/okay/i).click();
cy.findByText(/another button/i).click()

3reactions

selbekkcommented, Jul 1, 2020

Oh sorry, it’s just a new API - you’re not supposed to chain stuff any more. Perhaps we could implement a better error message?

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