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How not to wait for stability in Playwright?

I have an element with a CSS animation that makes it bounce a little. My Playwright test times out because the element never becomes stable. Its bounding box keeps changing because of the animation.

I could disable the animation for the tests as a workaround. But I wonder if it's possible to disable the auto-waiting for stability instead?

Solution

  • With Playwright, you can pass the force property to the click method to ignore waiting for element stability:

    myElement.click({ force: true });

    Docs Reference: https://playwright.dev/docs/input#forcing-the-click