Shadow DOM

Cypress natively supports traversing shadow DOM trees, both from a component testing point of view, and an application testing point of view.

Explicitly traversing shadow DOM

If you are testing components, or you simply prefer writing explicit selectors, you may traverse into any given shadow DOM tree like so:

cy
.get('my-element')
.shadow()
.find('button')
.click()

/*
  <my-element>
    #shadow-root
      <button>Click me!</button>
  </my-element>
*/

Alternatively, you may use the includeShadowDom: true option when traversing the DOM to look beyond each shadow root's boundary:

cy
.get('button', { includeShadowDom: true })
.click()

/*
  <my-element>
    #shadow-root
      <button>Click me!</button>
  </my-element>
*/

This effectively treats the DOM as if shadow boundaries do not exist and will traverse into them like any other elements.

The following commands support the includeShadowDom option: