Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
I have added cy.second and cy.third queries to my cypress-map plugin to make writing tests more natural. The plugin documentation is at github.com/bahmutov/cypress-map
cy.get('...').second().should('have.text', '...')
I have added cy.second and cy.third queries to my cypress-map plugin to make writing tests more natural. The plugin documentation is at github.com/bahmutov/cypress-map
cy.get('...').second().should('have.text', '...')

![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)
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