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    Get Elements With an Associated Test id Attribute Using the byTestId Query
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Get Elements With an Associated Test id Attribute Using the byTestId Query

Daniel Afonso
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Published 8 months ago
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Sometimes, none of the queries above will work for you. Instead of focusing on implementation details, the React Testing Library gives you a controlled way of doing so: using data-testid!

In this lesson, we are going to look at the one query that belongs to the TestId family and should be used as a last resort only: the byTestId query.

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