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Discussion on: Cypress Commands (Get, Click, Find)

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Grant Eben

Cypress recommends using data-* attributes as selectors and avoiding the use of IDs, classes, or tags: docs.cypress.io/guides/references/...

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Dilpreet Johal

I agree, data-* attributes are best to use as selectors. However, the site I was working didn't have any so had to use id, css, etc...

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Grant Eben

The nice thing about dev.to is that we're not tied to teaching from any particular website. We have the power to teach anything. So why not teach best practices?