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What is the safest way to click on an element in Playwright?

I need to click on an object using Playwright for Python! Sometimes the element's CSS changes, or it doesn't have an ID. I usually use page.click(XPATH), But I know there are many other ways like:

1 - page.get_by_text("Get Started").click()
2 - page.get_by_role("button", name="Submit").click()
3 - page.get_by_selector("#login-button").click()
4 - page.get_by_selector("//div[@class='user-agent']").click()
5 - locator = page.locator(".user-agent")
    locator.click()

Which has the highest probability of success?

Solution

  • Playwright has written som good advices: https://playwright.dev/docs/best-practices#best-practices (they are in the node.js docs, but the message is the same with Python). Personally, I agree with them: Write test based on whats visible to the user (get_by_text, get_by_role), tests depending on css/xpath etc. is more prone to flakiness.