Jun 2, 2023 Author - Sai gowtham

Testing Vue.js classes and styles using jest

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In this tutorial, we are going to learn about how to test the classes and styles in vue by using jest and vue-test-utils.

If you don’t know how to configure jest with vue, you can check out my testing introduction tutorial.

The example component we are testing.

Post.vue

<template>
  <div class="post" style="color:black">    <h1>This is post title</h1>
    <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit.</p>
  </div>
</template>
<script>
export default {};
</script>

In this component, we have a div element with post class and style attribute.

Let’s write tests for this component.

Testing component classes

Vue-test-utils provides us a classes() method, it returns the array of class names of the root element.

Post.test.js

import { shallowMount } from '@vue/test-utils';
import Post from '../src/components/Post.vue'
describe('Testing classes and style', () => {
    const wrapper = shallowMount(Post);
    it('checks the class to be post', () => {
        expect(wrapper.classes()).toContain('post');    })
})

In the above test, we are checking for the root element has a class name post.

Testing component style

We can directly access the style property inside the wrapper.element object.

Post.test.js

import Post from '../src/components/Post.vue'
import { shallowMount } from '@vue/test-utils';
describe('Testing classes and style', () => {
    const wrapper = shallowMount(Post);
    it('checks the class ', () => {
        expect(wrapper.classes()).toContain('post');
    })

    it('checks the inline style color:black', () => {
        expect(wrapper.element.style.color).toBe('black')    })
})

Note: By default wrapper object contains the root element class names and style, If you want to test the particular element classes in your component you need to use find( ) method.