Navigate back or forward to the previous or next URL in the browser's history.

Syntax

cy.go(direction)
cy.go(direction, options)

Usage

Correct Usage

cy.go('back')

Arguments

direction (String, Number)

The direction to navigate.

You can use back or forward to go one step back or forward. You could also navigate to a specific history position (-1 goes back one page, 1 goes forward one page, etc).

options (Object)

Pass in an options object to change the default behavior of cy.go().

Yields

• cy.go() 'yields the window object after the page finishes loading'

Examples

Direction

Go back in browser's history

cy.go('back') // equivalent to clicking back button

Go forward in browser's history

cy.go('forward') // equivalent to clicking forward button

Number

Go back in browser's history

cy.go(-1) // equivalent to clicking back button

Go forward in browser's history

cy.go(1) // equivalent to clicking forward button

Notes

Refreshing and loading the page

If going forward or back causes a full page refresh, Cypress will wait for the new page to load before moving on to new commands.

Cypress additionally handles situations where a page load was not caused (such as hash routing) and will resolve immediately.

Rules

Requirements

• cy.go() requires being chained off of cy .
• cy.go() requires the response to be content-type: text/html .
• cy.go() requires the response code to be 2xx after following redirects.
• cy.go() requires the load load event to eventually fire.

Assertions

• cy.go() will automatically wait for assertions you have chained to pass

Timeouts

• cy.go() can time out waiting for the page to fire its load event.
• cy.go() can time out waiting for assertions you've added to pass.

Command Log

Go back in browser's history

cy.visit('http://localhost:8000/folders').go('back')

The commands above will display in the Command Log as:

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

See also

• cy.reload()
• cy.visit()