'Selecting options from Mat-select using cypress

I have Mat-select dropdown as follows

<mat-form-field>
   <mat-label>Gender</mat-label>
      <mat-select id="gender" required formControlName="gender">
         <mat-option id="Male" value="male"> Male </mat-option>
         <mat-option value="female"> Female </mat-option>
      </mat-select>
 </mat-form-field>

I'm trying to use Cypress to select male or female from the field.

cy.get('mat-select').click().select('Male')

With the above code I get the following error:

CypressError: cy.select() can only be called on a <select>. Your subject is a: <mat-select>

I need some help in fixing this, thank you.

The code that worked for me.

cy.get('#gender').click().then(() => {
            cy.get('#male').click()
        })

Solution 1:^[1]

Opens up the mat-option dialog for the mat-select & selects the field that contains "Apple Inc."

cy.get('mat-select[formControlName=companyName]').click().get('mat-option').contains('Apple Inc.').click();

Solution 2:^[2]

Basically what I did was to simulate the Dropdown opening and then sumulate another click for item selection:

// simulate click event on the drop down
cy.get('mat-select').first()
        .click(); // opens the drop down

// simulate click event on the drop down item (mat-option)
cy.get('.mat-option-text span')
  .contains('Your MatItem Text')
  .then(option => {
            option[0].click();  // this is jquery click() not cypress click()
        });

Solution 3:^[3]

First, click on select for openning the overlay, then click on your option based on your option text content:

cy.get('mat-select[formcontrolname="departament"]').click();
cy.get('mat-option').contains('Lima').click();

My option text was Lima(+001). When I queried .contains('Lima') I got 'AssertionError'. But when I query .contains('Lima') or .contains('001') element is found. It's seems to me that only supports alphanumeric (I didn't go in deep).

Solution 4:^[4]

Just for other people still strugling with this/similar issue, even after trying the solutions presented here.

Your problem might also be that you are using a within block. Therefore mat-select items cannot be reached after clicking on the mat-option. So either take this part out of the within block or use the {withinSubject:null} option when getting the mat-select item.

cy.get("mat-select[formControlName*='language']").click();
cy.get('mat-option', {withinSubject:null}).contains('English').click();

Solution 5:^[5]

First,Select for opening the overlay, then select your option based on your option text content & use should() to verify that selecting the exact option:

cy.get('mat-select').select('Male').should('have.value','male');

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Solution	Source
Solution 1	Max
Solution 2	Mohammad Nakhaie
Solution 3	Daniel Delgado
Solution 4	PhilipAllStar
Solution 5	GHULAM NABI

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