Cheatsheet

A short guide to all the exported functions in DOM Testing Library

Queries

See Which query should I use?

	No Match	1 Match	1+ Match	Await?
getBy	throw	return	throw	No
findBy	throw	return	throw	Yes
queryBy	null	return	throw	No
getAllBy	throw	array	array	No
findAllBy	throw	array	array	Yes
queryAllBy	[]	array	array	No

• ByLabelText find by label or aria-label text content
  • getByLabelText
  • queryByLabelText
  • getAllByLabelText
  • queryAllByLabelText
  • findByLabelText
  • findAllByLabelText
• ByPlaceholderText find by input placeholder value
  • getByPlaceholderText
  • queryByPlaceholderText
  • getAllByPlaceholderText
  • queryAllByPlaceholderText
  • findByPlaceholderText
  • findAllByPlaceholderText
• ByText find by element text content
  • getByText
  • queryByText
  • getAllByText
  • queryAllByText
  • findByText
  • findAllByText
• ByDisplayValue find by form element current value
  • getByDisplayValue
  • queryByDisplayValue
  • getAllByDisplayValue
  • queryAllByDisplayValue
  • findByDisplayValue
  • findAllByDisplayValue
• ByAltText find by img alt attribute
  • getByAltText
  • queryByAltText
  • getAllByAltText
  • queryAllByAltText
  • findByAltText
  • findAllByAltText
• ByTitle find by title attribute or svg title tag
  • getByTitle
  • queryByTitle
  • getAllByTitle
  • queryAllByTitle
  • findByTitle
  • findAllByTitle
• ByRole find by aria role
  • getByRole
  • queryByRole
  • getAllByRole
  • queryAllByRole
  • findByRole
  • findAllByRole
• ByTestId find by data-testid attribute
  • getByTestId
  • queryByTestId
  • getAllByTestId
  • queryAllByTestId
  • findByTestId
  • findAllByTestId

Async

See Async API. Remember to await or .then() the result of async functions in your tests!

• waitFor (Promise) retry the function within until it stops throwing or times out
• waitForElementToBeRemoved (Promise) retry the function until it no longer returns a DOM node

Deprecated since v7.0.0:

• wait (Promise) retry the function within until it stops throwing or times
• waitForElement (Promise) retry the function until it returns an element or an array of elements
• findBy and findAllBy queries are async and retry until either a timeout or if the query returns successfully; they wrap waitForElement
• waitForDomChange (Promise) retry the function each time the DOM is changed

Events

See Considerations for fireEvent, Events API

• fireEvent trigger DOM event: fireEvent(node, event)
• fireEvent.* helpers for default event types
  • click fireEvent.click(node)
  • See all supported events

Other

See Querying Within Elements, Config API

• within take a node and return an object with all the queries bound to the node (used to return the queries from React Testing Library's render method): within(node).getByText("hello")
• configure change global options: configure({testIdAttribute: 'my-data-test-id'})

Text Match Options

Given the following HTML:

<div>Hello World</div>

Will find the div:

// Matching a string:

getByText(container, 'Hello World') // full string match

getByText(container, 'llo Worl', { exact: false }) // substring match

getByText(container, 'hello world', { exact: false }) // ignore case

// Matching a regex:

getByText(container, /World/) // substring match

getByText(container, /world/i) // substring match, ignore case

getByText(container, /^hello world$/i) // full string match, ignore case

getByText(container, /Hello W?oRlD/i) // advanced regex

// Matching with a custom function:

getByText(container, (content, element) => content.startsWith('Hello'))

Given a button that updates the page after some time:

test('loads items eventually', async () => {

// Click button

fireEvent.click(getByText(node, 'Load'))

// Wait for page to update with query text

const items = await findByText(node, /Item #[0-9]: /)

expect(items).toHaveLength(10)

})