# in cypress, what does it reallmean

Question

I am kind of new to cypress and was wondering if someone can explain how to really use the # when calling for an element, I tried to find some documentation but nothing really useful.

Maybe I was looking at the wrong place? if someone could point me in the right direction. Thanks

Answer 1

I am also new to cypress, but '#foo' is just shorthand for '[id="foo"]'

Say you have an element

<ul id="foo" class="bar">

You can address it with #foo

cy.get('#foo') 

is the same as

cy.get('[id="foo"]')

This works similar for the class.

cy.get('.bar')

is the same as

cy.get('[class="bar"]')

Maybe there is more to it, but that is how I use # and . in selectors