Querying Images

Learn more query types for selecting elements in this lesson.

Starter project

The project for this lesson contains a Message component that displays either an error or success message.

A copy of the project is in the code widget below. Click the “Run” button to run the app:

export default "test-file-stub";
App showing message component

Run the app.

We will see that an error message and success message consists of an image followed by some text.

The project contains a half-implemented test to verify the correct image is rendered for an error message. We will fully implement this test in this lesson.

The code widget below contains a copy of the project and runs the tests when the “Run” button is clicked:

export default "test-file-stub";
Half implemented test

The ByAltText query type

To finish the test implementation, we need to check that the correct img element is within the DOM.

There is a query type called ByAltText, which gets an img ...