.type() will not accept an empty string

Can we re-open this? I’m trying to write dynamic tests that cleanup after themselves. Take the value of input A and store it for later. Type something, click save and assert on reload that it’s there.

Now in the cleanup phase I want to write back whatever value was there before. This is where cy.type is breaking my tests if the original value was an empty string.

I have to add an if statement that basically checks to see if the original value was an empty string, and if it was, then don’t call cy.type. This isn’t ideal, cy.type feels like any string value should be a valid argument - even an empty string.

If you want to set the value of an input as an empty string, you can do this programatically. A person cannot type an empty string, so this will not be supported in .type().

To do this programmatically:

cy.get('input').invoke('val', '')