Version: Next

Release notes

Version 1.9#

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.
- 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.
Playwright for Python is now stable with an idiomatic snake case API and pre-built Docker image to run tests in CI/CD.

Selecting elements based on layout with :left-of(), :right-of(), :above() and :below().
Playwright now includes command line interface, former playwright-cli.
$ npx playwright --help
page.selectOption(selector, values[, options]) now waits for the options to be present.
New methods to assert element state like page.isEditable(selector[, options]).

New Java SDK: Playwright for Java is now on par with JavaScript, Python and C# bindings.
Browser storage API: New convenience APIs to save and load browser storage state (cookies, local storage) to simplify automation scenarios with authentication.
New CSS selectors: We heard your feedback for more flexible selectors and have revamped the selectors implementation. Playwright 1.7 introduces new CSS extensions and there's more coming soon.
New website: The docs website at playwright.dev has been updated and is now built with Docusaurus.
Support for Apple Silicon: Playwright browser binaries for WebKit and Chromium are now built for Apple Silicon.

browserContext.storageState([options]) to get current state for later reuse.
storageState option in browser.newContext([options]) and browser.newPage([options]) to setup browser context state.