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What's the recommended way to select an element by text in Playwright?

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What's the recommended way to select an element by text in Playwright?

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Based on the repository data provided, I don't have detailed documentation about element selection methods in the chunks retrieved. However, I can see from the README excerpt that Playwright provides locator-based APIs. The repository includes matcher functions like toContainText and toHaveText [packages/playwright/src/matchers/matchers.ts:L207-L225, L392-L410], which work with Locators to verify text content.

While the specific selection methods like getByText(), getByRole(), etc., aren't shown in the retrieved code snippets, Playwright Test uses a Locator-based approach for element selection. For the most current documentation on text-based element selection, you would need to check the official Playwright documentation at https://playwright.dev.

From the code, I can confirm that Playwright supports:

  • Text matching assertions via toContainText() and toHaveText() on Locator objects
  • These matchers support string and RegExp patterns, plus an ignoreCase option

FOLLOW_UPS:

  • How do Locator selectors work in Playwright?
  • What are the available locator query methods?
  • How does Playwright handle element waiting and auto-retry?

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