cypress/docs/source/api/commands/first.md

title, comments, description

title	comments	description
first	true

Get the first DOM element within a set of DOM elements.

Returns	the new DOM element(s) found by the command.
Timeout	cy.first will retry for the duration of the defaultCommandTimeout

cy.first()

Reduce the set of matched DOM elements to the first in the set.

Options

Pass in an options object to change the default behavior of cy.first.

cy.first(options )

Option	Default	Notes
log	true	whether to display command in command log
timeout	defaultCommandTimeout	Total time to retry getting the element

Usage

Get the first list item in a list.

<ul>
  <li class="one">Knick knack on my thumb</li>
  <li class="two">Knick knack on my shoe</li>
  <li class="three">Knick knack on my knee</li>
  <li class="four">Knick knack on my door</li>
</ul>

// returns <li class="one">Knick knack on my thumb</li>
cy.get("ul").first()

Command Log

Find the first input in the form

cy.get("form").find("input").first()

The commands above will display in the command log as:

When clicking on first within the command log, the console outputs the following:

Related

• last