cypress: cy.focused() inconsistent behavior

Operating System: Mac OS X Sierra
Cypress Version: 1.0.2
Browser Version: All

Is this a Feature or Bug?

Bug

Current behavior:

cy.focused() does the right thing when you keep the Cypress UI window focused. It does the wrong thing if you blur the Cypress UI window or if you run headlessly.

Desired behavior:

cy.focused() should produce consistent results, regardless of being run headed/headless or focused/blurred.

How to reproduce:

https://github.com/verheyenkoen/cypress-focused-issue

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 7 years ago
Reactions: 9
Comments: 17 (12 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Hey, while this works in headless mode, focused() still fails when using the ui and not having the cypress window focused. It would be great if it worked even when I’m on another tab or in my IDE, etc.

henrykuzmick on Oct 26, 2018

We don’t use chai-jquery anymore

@brian-mann meaning these docs are out of date, and you implement the chai-jquery natively (via the string args in .should())?

I also second the OP – currently cy.focused() yields window object (in some(?) cases) ).

IMO cy.focused() should correctly yield focused element.

Meanwhile, it can be done like this:

// get focused element
cy.get(":focus")

// assert if yielded element has focus
cy.get( selector ).should( $elem => {
    expect( $elem.is(":focus") ).to.be.true;
})

dwelle on Oct 25, 2017

Damn, what was I thinking?? Nevermind all that. Sorry for bothering…

verheyenkoen on Jul 18, 2018

I ran into this issue when testing moving between text boxes in a form. Basically was testing the behavior of focusing on the first text box, typed something, jumped to next one and typing something else.

bugzpodder on Oct 26, 2017