Cypress Command: followLink

Summary

cy.followLink($link) - Fetch the link specified by the `href` attribute on the given HTML `a` element and validate that the response has HTTP 200 status or behaves as annotated

Parameters

$link - The jQuery-wrapped link to click on, as provied by cy.get(). This will typically respresent an <a href="...">...</a> element.

Examples

cy.contains("the link text")
  .then($link => cy.followLink($link));

cy.get(...)
  .then($link => cy.followLink($link));

Waiting

This command will wait until the link is followed and its response is verified as specified by annotations.

Verification

This command will verify that href attribute of the $link responds with HTTP status 200, or as specified by annotations.

See Annotating Lab Instructions for supported annotations on links
To automatically perform all the actions within the current step, see clickStepActions or clickCurrentStepActions

Instruction-Guided

This is an instruction-guided command: By using this command to ask Cypress to follow a link rather than calling cy.visit or cy.request, you will avoid having to remember to update your tests every time the URL changes.