Cypress examples (v13.16.0)

Select Hidden Or Visible Elements

📺 Watch this recipe explained in the video Select Hidden Or Visible Elementsopen in new window.

Select hidden elements

<ul id="people">
  <li>Joe</li>
  <li style="display:none">Ann</li>
  <li>Mary</li>
  <li style="opacity:0">Chris</li>
</ul>

You can find all invisible elements in the DOM using the jQuery selector :hiddenopen in new window. Note: Cypress considers elements with opacity:0 to be hidden.

cy.get(':hidden')
  .map('innerText')
  .should('deep.equal', ['Ann', 'Chris'])

You can use :hidden with the cy.filteropen in new window command.

cy.get('li')
  .filter(':hidden')
  .map('innerText')
  .should('deep.equal', ['Ann', 'Chris'])

Tip: avoid matching stray elements by using a selector + :hidden combination. For example, to find all hidden <LI> elements inside the #people list, use the precise selector:

cy.get('#people li:hidden')
  .map('innerText')
  .should('deep.equal', ['Ann', 'Chris'])

Select visible elements

<ul id="people">
  <li>Joe</li>
  <li style="display:none">Ann</li>
  <li>Mary</li>
  <li style="opacity:0">Chris</li>
</ul>

You can find all visible elements in the DOM using the jQuery selector :visibleopen in new window. Note: Cypress considers elements with opacity:0 to be hidden.

cy.get('#people li:visible')
  .map('innerText')
  .should('deep.equal', ['Joe', 'Mary'])

Note: finding visible elements might return a lot of elements, including the parent elements in the DOM tree. In our example visible elements include the parent list element <UL> plus the individual <LI> elements.

cy.get(':visible')
  .map('nodeName')
  .should('deep.equal', ['UL', 'LI', 'LI'])