I have a description field and it has a CSS class

.unsaved-changes

that simply gives it that background color when the field changes. For some reason cypress is not able to see this change. It changed from a sentence to just the percent signs. It is saying that it just received

’’

so idk how verify that the percent signs were entered before submitting the entire form.

This is hard to speculate about, are you able to share an isolated example of the problem? You could use this template: https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress-test-tiny It sounds like it could be an encoding/decoding problem where % is incorrectly stripped, but people will probably see exactly what the test is doing to understand it and help.

I figured it out. I needed “have.value” and that worked