Selecting options from Mat-select using cypress

Question

I have Mat-select dropdown as follows

<mat-form-field>
   <mat-label>Gender</mat-label>
      <mat-select id="gender" required formControlName="gender">
         <mat-option id="Male" value="male"> Male </mat-option>
         <mat-option value="female"> Female </mat-option>
      </mat-select>
 </mat-form-field>

I'm trying to use Cypress to select male or female from the field.

cy.get('mat-select').click().select('Male')

With the above code I get the following error:

CypressError: cy.select() can only be called on a <select>. Your subject is a: <mat-select>

I need some help in fixing this, thank you.

The code that worked for me.

cy.get('#gender').click().then(() => {
            cy.get('#male').click()
        })

Solution 1

Opens up the mat-option dialog for the mat-select & selects the field that contains "Apple Inc."

cy.get('mat-select[formControlName=companyName]').click().get('mat-option').contains('Apple Inc.').click();

Solution 2

Basically what I did was to simulate the Dropdown opening and then sumulate another click for item selection:

// simulate click event on the drop down
cy.get('mat-select').first()
        .click(); // opens the drop down

// simulate click event on the drop down item (mat-option)
cy.get('.mat-option-text span')
  .contains('Your MatItem Text')
  .then(option => {
            option[0].click();  // this is jquery click() not cypress click()
        });

Solution 3

First, click on select for openning the overlay, then click on your option based on your option text content:

cy.get('mat-select[formcontrolname="departament"]').click();
cy.get('mat-option').contains('Lima').click();

My option text was Lima(+001). When I queried .contains('Lima') I got 'AssertionError'. But when I query .contains('Lima') or .contains('001') element is found. It's seems to me that only supports alphanumeric (I didn't go in deep).

Comments

[KiraAG]

Did you check this answer?

[Ian Jamieson]

Why are you using jQuery click and not Cypress?

[Juri]

not working for me - message: can only be called on a <select>. Your subject is a: <mat-select...