The question is as given in the title, ie, to access element whose parent is hidden. The problem is that, as per the cypress.io docs : An element is considered hidden if: Its width or height is 0. Its CSS property (or ancestors) is visibility: hidden. Its CSS property (or ancestors) is display: none. Its CSS property is position: fixed and it’s offscreen or covered up. But the code that I am working with requires me to click on an element whose parent is hidden, while the element itself is visible . So each time I try to click on the element, it throws up an error reading : CypressError: Timed