How to get the text input field value to a const and log that value in Cypress.io

Question

How to get the text input field value to a 'const' variable in Cypress, so that I can log that variable using cy.log(). The below code doesn't log anything, can someone familiar with Cypress.io please advise

cy.get('input[name="email"]').then(($text)=>{         const txt = $text.text()         cy.log(txt)      }) 

Answer 1

Using invoke('val') instead of invoke('text') worked for my case.

Reminder of the html tag

<input type="text" class="form-control" name="email"> 

Cypress code

cy.get('input[name="email"]')   .invoke('val')   .then(sometext => cy.log(sometext)); 

Answer 2

Cypress official solution How do I get an input’s value? suggests something like this code below:

cy.get('input[name="email"]').should('have.value', val)