cypress-html-validate

Cypress HTML-Validate plugin

Validates HTML using html-validate. It automatically fetches the active source markup from the browser and validates, failing the test if any validation errors is encountered.

Installation

npm install --save-dev html-validate cypress-html-validate

Make sure you install both html-validate and the plugin cypress-html-validate. With NPM 7 or later it will be satisfied by the peer dependency but for a more consistent and deterministic experience it is suggested to include both as dependencies for your project.

Usage

In cypress/plugins/index.js:

const htmlvalidate = require("cypress-html-validate/dist/plugin");

module.exports = (on) => {
  htmlvalidate.install(on);
};

In cypress/support/index.js:

import "cypress-html-validate/dist/commands";

In specs:

it("should be valid", () => {
  cy.visit("/my-page.html");
  cy.htmlvalidate();
});

To automatically run after each test you can use afterEach either in the spec file or in cypress/support/index.js:

afterEach(() => {
  cy.htmlvalidate();
});

Configuration

html-validate and the plugin can configured globally in cypress/plugins/index.js:

/* html-validate configuration */
const config = {
  rules: {
    foo: "error",
  },
};
/* plugin options */
const options = {
  exclude: [],
  include: [],
  formatter(messages) {
    console.log(messages);
  },
};
htmlvalidate.install(on, config, options);

See html-validate documentation for full description of configuration.

If you want to override per call you can pass configuration and/or options directly to the function:

cy.htmlvalidate([config], [options]);

Options

exclude: string[]

A list of selectors to ignore errors from. Any errors from the elements or any descendant will be ignored.

include: []

A list of selectors to include errors from. If this is set to non-empty array only errors from elements or any descendants will be included.

formatter

• type: (messages: ElementMessage[]): void

Custom formatter/reporter for detected errors. Default uses console.table(..) to log to console. Set to null to disable.

Changelog

2.1.2 (2021-11-14)

Dependency upgrades

• deps: update dependency cypress to v9 (b96fd3f)