diff --git a/spec/frontend/test_setup.js b/spec/frontend/test_setup.js
index 006fc60ef57..1edb2450b4c 100644
--- a/spec/frontend/test_setup.js
+++ b/spec/frontend/test_setup.js
@@ -23,3 +23,12 @@ beforeEach(done => {
 });
 
 Vue.use(Translate);
+
+// workaround for JSDOM not supporting innerText
+// see https://github.com/jsdom/jsdom/issues/1245
+Object.defineProperty(global.Element.prototype, 'innerText', {
+  get() {
+    return this.textContent;
+  },
+  configurable: true, // make it so that it doesn't blow chunks on re-running tests with things like --watch
+});