Cypress: How to convert list of text into arrrays?

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I have a HTML code like this

<ul class="menu-main-nav-container">
    <li>Home</li>
    <li>About</li>
        <ul>
            <li>About1</li>
            <li>About2</li>
            <li>About3</li>
        </ul>
    <li>Contact</li>
    <li>Links</li>
</ul>

What i want to achieve is to get all the text of li's and convert it to array so that i can use each array for comparison to other values. but the twist is the li's are constantly changing

So far i have this code on cypress

it('List to array', () => {
        cy.get('*[class^="menu-main-nav-container"]').eq(0).then($text => {
            const text = $text.text().toString().slice('')
            cy.log(text[0])
})
})

It just log the text 'H' for now but i want to achieve is text = ["Home", "About", "Contact", Links" ] so that i can compose text[0] that i can use

I'm so stuck right now

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2 Answers

One way, you can take advantage of Cypress selecting multiple elements, then convert elements to texts

cy.get('.menu-main-nav-container')
  .find('li')   // gets all li including sub-menu ones!
  .then($els => {
    return Array.from($els).map(el => el.innerText)
  })
  .should('deep.eq', ['Home', 'About', 'About1', 'About2', 'About3', 'Contact', 'Links'])

or top-level only

cy.get('.menu-main-nav-container')
  .children('li')   // gets main menu options
  .then($els => {
    return Array.from($els).map(el => el.innerText)
  })
  .should('deep.eq', ['Home', 'About', 'Contact', 'Links'])

Docs reference

user_169977070

You can do something like this:

it('List to array', () => {
  var list = []

  cy.get('ul[class="menu-main-nav-container"] > li')
    .each(($ele) => {
      list.push($ele.text().trim())
    })
    .then(() => {
      cy.log(list[0]) //prints Home
    })
})

Or, you can do also something like this:

var list = []
cy.get('ul[class="menu-main-nav-container"] > li')
  .then(($ele) => {
    const list = Array.from($ele, (el) => el.innerText)
  })
  .then(() => {
    cy.log(list[0]) //prints Home
  })
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