cypress clicks links in checkbox labels since 13.5.1

[DavesPlanet]

Current behavior

given a div with role="checkbox" and a link in the checkbox label, such as

  <div class="checkbox">
       <div id="DisclosureCheckbox"
            role="checkbox"
            aria-labelledby="DisclosureCheckbox_label"
            aria-checked="false" aria-required="true">
       </div>
       <label id="DisclosureCheckbox_label" for="DisclosureCheckbox">
           I have read and agree to the
           <span><a target="_blank"  href="http://google.com">Disclosure</a> (PDF).</span>
       </label>
   </div>
 

the following code previously checked the checkbox, but since yesterday it has been clicking on the link in the label, causing test failures in numerous projects.

cy.get('.checkbox > label').click()

Desired behavior

just wanted you to alert you to a breaking change in case it was not intended

Test code to reproduce

cy.get('.checkbox > label').click()
given the checkbox label also contains a link

Cypress Version

13.5.1

Node version

v20.9.0

Operating System

Win 10 enterprise

Debug Logs

No response

Other

No response

[jennifer-shehane]

@DavesPlanet Thanks for reporting. Could you provide a fully reproducible example? I'm unable to reproduce this given the information we have. I ran a test with a label and checkbox similar to this and it is clicking the checkbox correctly in 13.5.1

[DavesPlanet]

apologies I cannot. I have spent the last hour on this and any minor deviation from our production code does not reproduce the issue, even excluding combinations of css files. We corrected the issue by removing all carrots from our package.json, which forced versions of things to stay the way they were. We know the issue first occurred today, the day after your release of 13.5.1 but I am afraid I will need to close this issue as un-reproduceable with anything but our full production suite. Even then it only failed for certain tests which included different css than other tests. Thank you for your time.