If the selector doesn't satisfy the condition for the timeout milliseconds, the function will throw. I suggest you review the following documentation to get a better handle on the general Testing Library philosophy and how it is intended to be used to help you test your application more closely to how your users interact with it: In this case, ideally, you'd instead be querying for the native checkbox control using an accessible label, like so: Once you're reviewed that, if you're still having this kind of problem, it's really an issue with how you're using Playwright, and it has nothing to do with Playwright Testing Library. Path to the JavaScript file. It describes how to find an element on the page. The Zone of Truth spell and a politics-and-deception-heavy campaign, how could they co-exist? If you know this is taking place, you can bypass the actionability checks and force the click: If you are not interested in testing your app under the real conditions and want to simulate the click by any means possible, you can trigger the HTMLElement.click() behavior via simply dispatching a click event on the element with locator.dispatchEvent(): Type into the field character by character, as if it was a user with a real keyboard with locator.type(). Instead, try to come up with a locator that is close to how the user perceives the page such as role locators or define an explicit testing contract using test ids. In your html you can now use data-pw as your test id instead of the default data-testid. https://testing-library.com/docs/guiding-principles, https://testing-library.com/docs/dom-testing-library/faq, https://testing-library.com/docs/dom-testing-library/api-accessibility, https://playwright.dev/docs/debug#playwright-inspector, https://playwright.dev/docs/debug#actionability-logs, [chromium] tests/web/vacation.bidaward.defaults.spec.po.new.js:14:9 Bid and award Default page verification Default page verification. This method taps the element by performing the following steps: elementHandle.tap() requires that the hasTouch option of the browser context be set to true. If no elements match the selector, returns null. // Note you can only create DataTransfer in Chromium and Firefox. position Object (optional) Added in: v1.11#. All images should have an alt attribute that describes the image. :nth-match() is also useful to wait until a specified number of elements appear, using page.waitForSelector(selector[, options]). console.log(" header" + header) The following examples use the built-in text and css selector engines. Could you observe air-drag on an ISS spacewalk? For example, Playwright converts '//html/body' to 'xpath=//html/body'. However the testing community seems to be loving it, thus I gave it another shot. If that element changes text or is used by React to render an entirely different component, handle is still pointing to that very DOM element. If pageFunction returns a Promise, then elementHandle.$$eval() would wait for the promise to resolve and return its value. https://testing-library.com/docs/guiding-principles, https://testing-library.com/docs/dom-testing-library/faq, https://testing-library.com/docs/dom-testing-library/api-accessibility, https://playwright.dev/docs/debug#playwright-inspector, https://playwright.dev/docs/debug#actionability-logs. You can specify option value, or label to select. Using "device" option will produce a single pixel per each device pixel, so screenshots of high-dpi devices will be twice as large or even larger. This means that all operations on locators that imply some target DOM element will throw an exception if more than one element matches. Note that index is one-based. // Start waiting for file chooser before clicking. Returns input.value for the selected or