Uploaded July 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
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 glebbahmutov.com/cypress-examples
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 glebbahmutov.com/cypress-examples
