Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
The "cy.then" command does not retry its callback function, but the code inside the callback can still use normal Cypress commands with retries. This video shows one such example and then refactors it for simplicity. Find the full recipe on my site glebbahmutov.com/cypress-examples
The "cy.then" command does not retry its callback function, but the code inside the callback can still use normal Cypress commands with retries. This video shows one such example and then refactors it for simplicity. Find the full recipe on my site glebbahmutov.com/cypress-examples




![Escape Regular Expression Text When Using cy.contains Command
This video shows how to escape special characters like $, [], and ^ when creating regular expressions to use with cy.contains command. You can escape the characters yourself or use the Lodash method Cypress._.escapeRegExp bundled with Cypress to do it for you
const suffix = $/day
const regex = new RegExp(Cypress._.escapeRegExp(suffix))
cy.contains(regex).should(have.id, rate)
Find the full recipe at https://glebbahmutov.com/cypress-examples Escape Regular Expression Text When Using cy.contains Command](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hMzqiSUVGwA/mqdefault.jpg)





