How to select nth item inside select element in cypress
CypressCypress Problem Overview
say I have the HTML:
<select name="subject" data-testid="contact-us-subject-field">
<option value="What is this regarding?">What is this regarding?</option>
<option value="Partnerships">Partnerships</option>
<option value="Careers">Careers</option>
<option value="Press">Press</option>
<option value="Other">Other</option>
</select>
Selecting an option with a known value, such as 'Careers' is as easy as:
cy.get('[data-testid="contact-us-subject-field"]').select('Careers');
How do I select the nth option in this field, regardless of its value?
Cypress Solutions
Solution 1 - Cypress
Update
As pointed out by @dpstree in the comments, this doesn't answer the original question. Please see more recent answers for a complete solution.
Original
By using eq
cy.get('tbody>tr').eq(0) // Yield first 'tr' in 'tbody'
cy.get('ul>li').eq(4) // Yield fifth 'li' in 'ul'
Solution 2 - Cypress
In the particular context of selecting the nth option
, this may be appropriate:
cy.get('select[name=subject] > option')
.eq(3)
.then(element => cy.get('select[name=subject]').select(element.val()))
Solution 3 - Cypress
Based on solution from Miguel Rueda, but using prevSubject
option:
Cypress.Commands.add(
'selectNth',
{ prevSubject: 'element' },
(subject, pos) => {
cy.wrap(subject)
.children('option')
.eq(pos)
.then(e => {
cy.wrap(subject).select(e.val())
})
}
)
Usage:
cy.get('[name=assignedTo]').selectNth(2)
Explanation:
- Using
children('option')
and.eq(pos)
traverse children of select to specific element. - Call
select
method with value of selected element.
Solution 4 - Cypress
Update 2021
You can now select an option by index
within the .select(index)
command:
cy.get('select').select(0) // selects by index (yields first option) ie "What is this regarding?"
cy.get('select').select([0, 1]) // select an array of indexes
This should be easy now with the release of cypress v8.5.0. See documentation for more.
Solution 5 - Cypress
I had the same problem and solved it by creating a custom cypress command. No as pretty as I would like, but it did the job.
Cypress.Commands.add("selectNth", (select, pos) => {
cy.get(`${select} option +option`)
.eq(pos)
.then( e => {
cy.get(select)
.select(e.val())
})
})
then I used in the test as such
cy.viewport(375, 667)
.selectNth("customSelector", 3)
The option +option
part was the only way I could find to get the full list of options inside a select and it's currently the bit of code i'm trying to work arround although it works fine.
Solution 6 - Cypress
since the working answers are using then anyways, eq or something fancier is redundant with array indexing...
// to click on the 1st button
cy.get('button').then($elements => {cy.wrap($elements[0]).click();});
// to click on the 4th tr
cy.get('tr').then($elements => {cy.wrap($elements[3]).click();});
// to click on the last div:
cy.get('div').then($elements => {cy.wrap($elements[$elements.length - 1]).click();});
Solution 7 - Cypress
Find dropdown using ID or Class -
cy.get('#ID').contains("dowpdown placeholder or name").click();
After Click dropdown result dropdown element will popup, find that result ID or Class using inspect element, Then -
cy.get('#result-ID').children().first().click();
This will click on the first element of the dropdown.
Solution 8 - Cypress
Let's assume you wanna select 2nd option, you can do that simply by this
cy.get("select option").eq(2)
just keep in mind that cy.get()
works like jquery's $()
.
Solution 9 - Cypress
Capture all the elements in the drop-down using a selector. Get the length. Use math.random()
to randomly get a number. Select the option at the index.
cy.get("ul > li").as("options")
cy
.get("@options")
.its('length')
.then(len => Math.floor(Math.random() * Math.floor(len)))
.then((index) => {
cy.get("@options").eq(index).click()
})