Cypress retries queries but not actions, and a then callback ends the retryable chain

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Retry-ability applies to queries such as cy.get, .find and .contains, which are re-run as a chain until the following assertion passes or the timeout expires. Actions like .click() and .type() are not retried: they wait for the element to become actionable and then run exactly once. Code inside .then() also runs once, so an assertion placed there fails immediately instead of waiting for the application to settle.

The practical rules are to end a chain with .should() rather than .then() when you want waiting, to keep the query and its assertion adjacent, and to avoid side effects inside .should() callbacks because they can execute many times before passing. When an element is found but the click lands on the wrong thing, the element was re-rendered between the query and the action.

Source: https://docs.cypress.io/app/core-concepts/retry-ability

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