find

Get the descendent DOM elements of a specific selector.

info

The querying behavior of this command matches exactly how .find() works in jQuery.

Syntax

.find(selector)
.find(selector, options)

Usage

Correct Usage

cy.get('.article').find('footer') // Yield 'footer' within '.article'

Incorrect Usage

cy.find('.progress') // Errors, cannot be chained off 'cy'
cy.exec('node start').find() // Errors, 'exec' does not yield DOM element

Arguments

selector (String selector)

A selector used to filter matching descendent DOM elements.

options (Object)

Pass in an options object to change the default behavior of .find().

Option	Default	Description
log	true	Displays the command in the Command log
timeout	defaultCommandTimeout	Time to wait for .find() to resolve before timing out
includeShadowDom	includeShadowDom config option value	Whether to traverse shadow DOM boundaries and include elements within the shadow DOM in the yielded results.

Yields

• .find() yields the new DOM element(s) it found.

Examples

Selector

Get li's within parent

<ul id="parent">
  <li class="first"></li>
  <li class="second"></li>
</ul>

// yields [<li class="first"></li>, <li class="second"></li>]
cy.get('#parent').find('li')

Rules

Requirements

• .find() requires being chained off a command that yields DOM element(s).

Assertions

• .find() will automatically retry until the element(s) exist in the DOM
• .find() will automatically retry until all chained assertions have passed

Timeouts

• .find() can time out waiting for the element(s) to exist in the DOM.
• .find() can time out waiting for assertions you've added to pass.

Command Log

Find the li's within the nav

cy.get('.left-nav>.nav').find('>li')

The commands above will display in the Command Log as:

When clicking on the find command within the command log, the console outputs the following:

History

Version	Changes
5.2.0	Added includeShadowDom option.

See also

• cy.get()