get nth text variable within a specific class/id in html using cypress - html

Question

I'm new to cypress and lately I have to extract text variables within websites using cypress. Now, I've finally figured out how to extract text variables of a specific class/id in html. However, I cannot find the right way to extract the exact nth element within the class/id.
For example, here is my html:
<div class ="main-menu-wrapper align-self-stretch align-items-stretch" id="navbarCollaspse">
<ul region="header" class="clearfix nav navbar-nav navbar-nav-center mx-auto">
<li class="nav-item menu-item--expanded dropdown">
<a href="https://example/subwebsite/aaaaa"
class="nav-link dropdown-toggle main-menu-1" data-toggle="dropdown" aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true">
TEXTAAAAA </a>
<li class="nav-item menu-item--expanded dropdown">
<a href="https://example/subwebsite/bbbbb"
class="nav-link dropdown-toggle main-menu-2" data-toggle="dropdown"
aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true">
TEXTBBBBBB </a>
<li class="nav-item menu-item--expanded dropdown">
<a href="https://example/subwebsite/ccccc"
class="nav-link dropdown-toggle main-menu-3" data-toggle="dropdown" aria-
expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true">
TEXTCCCCCC </a>
</div>
Here is my cypress javascript code:
cy.visit('https://example/website')
cy.get([class="clearfix nav navbar-nav navbar-nav-center mx-auto"]).each(($el) => {
cy.wrap($el).invoke('text')
.then(text => {
//do something with the text
//Here, I could get TEXTAAAAA TEXTBBBBBB TEXTCCCCCC orderly, however, i want to extract only TEXTBBBBBB
})
})
Now, when I cy.get([class="clearfix nav navbar-nav navbar-nav-center mx-auto"]).each($el) I could get TEXTAAAAA TEXTBBBBBB TEXTCCCCCC. However, now, I only want to get the second element within the class , in this case, TEXTBBBBBB. I tried to reference the way from here but cypress couldn't found the path.
Any ideas on how to get specific element within a class using cypress is a great help! Thanks a million!

Answer 1

If you want to extract the text for a particular element, you can do it by using the index value, it should look something like this. Here we ae extracting the second element.
cy.get('locator').each(($el, index) => {
if (index == 1) {
cy.wrap($el).invoke('text').then((text) => {
//do something with the text
})
}
})