Locators are an essential feature of Playwright that helps to find elements on a webpage at any time. They also enable Playwright to automatically wait and retry locating an element until it becomes available.

To identify webpage elements in Playwright, we use selectors, which come in various types. Below, we will examine these selector categories in more detail..

After finding an element using a selector, we can perform multiple actions on it, such as clicking, typing text, or retrieving its attribute values etc...

As we discussed in the previous article, Playwright tests can only be executed on the browser versions that are shipped with the corresponding Playwright version. For example, Playwright Version 1.31 was shipped with the following browser versions: -

• Chromium 111.0.5563.19
• Mozilla Firefox 109.0
• WebKit 16.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

After setting up Playwright, you may have noticed that it generates a global configuration file called 'playwright.config.ts', which contains default settings. In the configuration projects section, Playwright is configured to run on the three browsers (chromium, firefox, webkit) by default. When executing a Playwright test, it will run on all three browsers.

Playwright is a Node.js library for automating web browsers, developed by Microsoft. It provides a high-level API for interacting with web pages, and supports multiple browsers including Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit. Playwright is designed to be easy to use, highly reliable, and to work seamlessly with modern web applications.