Chaining .selectFile from document throws an error

[georgekaran]

Current behavior

When attempting to use the following commad:

cy.document().selectFile('example.json', {action: 'drag-drop'});

I get the following error:

CypressError: `cy.selectFile()` failed because it requires a DOM element.

The subject received was:

  > `<document>`

The previous command that ran was:

  > `cy.document()`

Desired behavior

It should allow drop files in the document as described in the docs

Test code to reproduce

I made a repo with the issue: https://github.com/georgekaran/cypress-test-tiny/tree/document-select-file

Cypress Version

v12.17.4

Node version

v20.10.0

Operating System

macOS 14.5

Debug Logs

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Other

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[jennifer-shehane]

Yah I'm unsure if the documentation is incorrect or if we changed the behavior unintenionally somewhere to make this fail. It makes sense to me that you'd target a document to drag and drop though.