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Cypress get element that a child contains

I'm trying to find in a table my row that cy.contains() a specific text.

I cannot do:

cy.get("tr").contains("specific text")

That will return my span element containing the text

I cannot do

cy.get("tr").contains("specific text").parent()

beacause the parent of the span my not be my

I cannot do

cy.get("tr").contains("specific text").parentUnitl("tr")

That will not return the element

I probably could do

cy.get("tr").contains("specific text").parentUnitl("tr").parent()

But I think that's becoming really complex for such a simple thing.

Am I missing something?

Thanks

Solution

  • You can do

    cy.contains("tr", "specific text")

    which will return the <tr> even though the text is in a descendent <span>.

    It will also have better retry ability than cy.get().contains() if the row loads asynchronously.