`getByRole("option", { name: "..." })` does not match element contents

[TrevorRice]

• @testing-library/dom version: 8.13.0
• @testing-library/jest-dom version: 5.16.4
• @testing-library/react version: 13.2.0

Relevant code or config:

I have an Option component that simply wraps its children in a <div role="option">:

const Option = (props) => {
  return <div id="..." role="option" aria-selected="...">{props.children}</div>
}

// DOM
<div id="..." role="option" aria-selected="...">Dog</div>

What you did:

I've been trying to query for a specific option via getByRole in my unit tests:

getByRole("option", { name: "Dog" })

What happened:

I receive the following error:

TestingLibraryElementError: Unable to find an element with the role "option" and name "Dog"

Here are the available roles:
...
 --------------------------------------------------
      option:

      Name "":
      <div
        aria-selected="false"
        id=":r3l:"
        role="option"
      />

Despite the element's accessible name being "Dog" as demonstrated by inspecting the accessibility tree:

Reproduction:

Problem description:

getByRole does not seem to respect an element's accessible name when not explicitly defined via a method like aria-label or aria-labelledby.

Suggested solution:

I would expect the name option to respect an element's accessible name regardless of how it was constructed.

Please let me know if I'm totally overlooking something!

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[TrevorRice]

Apologies, this turned out to an issue with how we were using a Floating UI hook.

[okonet]

@TrevorRice I think I'm facing a similar issue. Can you point me to the problem you had please?