v1.14.0

⚡️ New "strict" mode

Selector ambiguity is a common problem in automation testing. "strict" mode
ensures that your selector points to a single element and throws otherwise.

Use setStrict(true) in your action calls to opt in.

// This will throw if you have more than one button!
page.click("button", new Page.ClickOptions().setStrict(true));

📍 New Locators API

Locator represents a view to the element(s) on the page. It captures the logic sufficient to retrieve the element at any given moment.

The difference between the Locator and ElementHandle is that the latter points to a particular element, while Locator captures the logic of how to retrieve that element.

Also, locators are "strict" by default!

Locator locator = page.locator("button");
locator.click();

Learn more in the documentation.

🧩 Experimental React and Vue selector engines

React and Vue selectors allow selecting elements by its component name and/or property values. The syntax is very similar to attribute selectors and supports all attribute selector operators.

page.click("_react=SubmitButton[enabled=true]");
page.click("_vue=submit-button[enabled=true]");

Learn more in the react selectors documentation and the vue selectors documentation.

✨ New nth and visible selector engines

• nth selector engine is equivalent to the :nth-match pseudo class, but could be combined with other selector engines.
• visible selector engine is equivalent to the :visible pseudo class, but could be combined with other selector engines.

// select the first button among all buttons
button.click("button >> nth=0");
// or if you are using locators, you can use first(), nth() and last()
page.locator("button").first().click();
// click a visible button
button.click("button >> visible=true");

Browser Versions

• Chromium 94.0.4595.0
• Mozilla Firefox 91.0
• WebKit 15.0

This version of Playwright was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 92
• Microsoft Edge 92

v1.13.0

Playwright

• 🖖 Programmatic drag-and-drop support via the Page.dragAndDrop() API.
• 🔎 Enhanced HAR with body sizes for requests and responses. Use via setRecordHarPath option in Browser.newContext().

Tools

• Playwright Trace Viewer now shows parameters, returned values and console.log() calls.

New and Overhauled Guides

• Intro
• Authentication
• Chome Extensions
• Playwright Test Configuration
• Playwright Test Annotations
• Playwright Test Fixtures

Browser Versions

• Chromium 93.0.4576.0
• Mozilla Firefox 90.0
• WebKit 14.2

New Playwright APIs

• new baseURL option in Browser.newContext() and Browser.newPage()
• Response.securityDetails() and Response.serverAddr()
• Page.dragAndDrop() and Frame.dragAndDrop()
• Download.cancel()
• Page.inputValue(), Frame.inputValue() and ElementHandle.inputValue()
• new force option in Page.fill(), Frame.fill(), and ElementHandle.fill()
• new force option in Page.selectOption(), Frame.selectOption(), and ElementHandle.selectOption()

v1.12.1

Highlights

This patch release includes bugfixes for the following issues:

microsoft/playwright#7015 - [BUG] Firefox: strange undefined toJSON property on JS objects
microsoft/playwright#7048 - [BUG] Dialogs cannot be dismissed if tracing is on in Chromium or Webkit
microsoft/playwright#7058 - [BUG] Getting no video frame error for mobile chrome

Browser Versions

• Chromium 93.0.4530.0
• Mozilla Firefox 89.0
• WebKit 14.2

This version of Playwright was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 91
• Microsoft Edge 91

v1.12.0

🧟‍♂️ Introducing Playwright Trace & TraceViewer

Playwright Trace Viewer is a new GUI tool that helps exploring recorded Playwright traces after the script ran. Playwright traces let you examine:

• page DOM before and after each Playwright action
• page rendering before and after each Playwright action
• browser network during script execution

Traces are recorded using the new BrowserContext.tracing() API:

Browser browser = chromium.launch();
BrowserContext context = Browser.newContext();

// Start tracing before creating / navigating a page.
context.tracing.start(new Tracing.StartOptions()
  .setScreenshots(true)
  .setSnapshots(true);

Page page = context.newPage();
page.goto("https://playwright.dev");

// Stop tracing and export it into a zip archive.
context.tracing.stop(new Tracing.StopOptions()
  .setPath(Paths.get("trace.zip")));

Traces are examined later with the Playwright CLI:

mvn exec:java -e -Dexec.mainClass=com.microsoft.playwright.CLI -Dexec.args="show-trace trace.zip"

That will open the following GUI:

👉 Read more in trace viewer documentation.

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Browser Versions

• Chromium 93.0.4530.0
• Mozilla Firefox 89.0
• WebKit 14.2

This version of Playwright was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 91
• Microsoft Edge 91

New APIs

• reducedMotion option in Page.emulateMedia(), BrowserType.launchPersistentContext(), Browser.newContext() and Browser.newPage()
• BrowserContext.onRequest()
• BrowserContext.onRequestFailed()
• BrowserContext.onRequestFinished()
• BrowserContext.onResponse()
• tracesDir option in BrowserType.launch() and BrowserType.launchPersistentContext()
• new BrowserContext.tracing() API namespace
• new Download.page() method

v1.11.1

Highlights

This patch includes bug fixes across all languages for the following issues:

• microsoft/playwright-python#679 - can't get browser's context pages after connect_over_cdp
• #432 - [Bug] Videos are not complete when an exception is thrown

Browser Versions

• Chromium 92.0.4498.0
• Mozilla Firefox 89.0b6
• WebKit 14.2

This version of Playwright was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 90
• Microsoft Edge 90

v1.11.0

Highlights

🎥 New video: Playwright: A New Test Automation Framework for the Modern Web (slides)

• We talked about Playwright
• Showed engineering work behind the scenes
• Did live demos with new features ✨
• Special thanks to applitools for hosting the event and inviting us!

⚙️ Chrome DevTools Protocol support with BrowserType.connectOverCDP().

Browser Versions

• Chromium 92.0.4498.0
• Mozilla Firefox 89.0b6
• WebKit 14.2

This version of Playwright was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 90
• Microsoft Edge 90

New APIs

• new emulation devices: Galaxy S8, Galaxy S9+, Galaxy Tab S4, Pixel 3, Pixel 4
• new methods:
  • BrowserType.connectOverCDP() to connect using Chrome DevTools protocol
  • BrowserType.connect() to connect to a Playwright server
  • Page.waitForURL() to ensure navigations to URL
  • Video.delete() and Video.saveAs() to manage screen recording
• new options:
  • screen option in the Browser.newContext() method to emulate window.screen dimensions
  • position option in Page.check() and Page.uncheck() methods
  • trial option to dry-run actions in Page.check(), Page.uncheck(), Page.click(), Page.dblclick(), Page.hover() and Page.tap()
  • headers option in BrowserType.connect()

v1.10.0

Highlights

• Playwright for Java v1.10 is now stable!
• Run Playwright against Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge stable channels with the new channels API.
• Chromium screenshots are fast on Mac & Windows.

Bundled Browser Versions

• Chromium 90.0.4430.0
• Mozilla Firefox 87.0b10
• WebKit 14.2

This version of Playwright was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 89
• Microsoft Edge 89

New APIs

• BrowserType.launch() now accepts the new 'channel' option. Read more in our documentation.

v1.9.1-alpha-0

Highlights

• This release is based on Playwright v1.9.2
• Text selector and click() fixes.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 90.0.4421.0
• Mozilla Firefox 86.0b10
• WebKit 14.1

Issues Closed (2)

microsoft/playwright#5634 - [REGRESSION]: Test selector changed behavior
microsoft/playwright#5674 - [REGRESSION]: Label is not visible anymore

v1.9.0-alpha-0

Highlights

• Playwright goes semver. We are jumping from 0.180.* to 1.9.0-alapha-0 to become semver compliant. This is a breaking change, but once we drop the Alpha bit, it'll be in stone for years!

• Documentation site is now all about Java! It has guides, sample snippets, API docs.

• Playwright Inspector is a new GUI tool to author and debug your tests.

  • Line-by-line debugging of your Playwright scripts, with play, pause and step-through. Set PLAYWRIGHT_JAVA_SRC=<src dir> to let debugger know location of your java sources.
  • Author new scripts by recording user actions.
  • Generate element selectors for your script by hovering over elements.
  • Set the PWDEBUG=1 environment variable to launch the Inspector

• Pause script execution with page.pause() in headed mode. Pausing the page launches Playwright Inspector for debugging.

• New has-text pseudo-class for CSS selectors. :has-text("example") matches any element containing "example" somewhere inside, possibly in a child or a descendant element. See more examples.

• Page dialogs are now auto-dismissed during execution, unless a listener for dialog event is configured. Learn more about this.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 90.0.4421.0
• Mozilla Firefox 86.0b10
• WebKit 14.1

New APIs

• page.pause

v0.181.0

Highlights

• Includes driver v1.8.1
• page.reload() and page.isVisible() fixes.