[REGRESSION]: Selector `text=""` works differ for element with nested elements since 1.9

[frezot]

Context:

• GOOD Playwright Version: 1.8.1
• BAD Playwright Version: 1.9
• Operating System: Linux, Mac

Code Snippet

https://github.com/frezot/pw-1.9-bug

Describe the bug

Page has element

<div>Illon M.<span>*9025 SOME BANK</span></div>

in 1.8.1 for get this div by text

await page.waitForSelector('text="Illon M."')

in 1.9

    page.waitForSelector: Timeout 1000ms exceeded.
    =========================== logs ===========================
    waiting for selector "text="Illon M."" to be visible
    ============================================================

[mxschmitt]

I think this works as expected, see here:

text="Log in" - text body can be escaped with single or double quotes for full-string case-sensitive match. For example text="Log" does not match <button>Log in</button> but instead matches <span>Log</span>.

So in your case await page.waitForSelector('text=Illon M.') would be the solution, since it's a partial match of the div element. Removing the quotes also allows partial matches.

[KirProkopchik]

@mxschmitt
My example is 25–34
Version 1.8.1
await page.click('"25–34"'); or await page.click('text=25–34');

Version 1.9.0
waiting for selector "text=25–34"
selector resolved to visible <span data-testid="optionText" class="styled__OptionTe…>25–34
attempting click action
waiting for element to be visible, enabled and stable
element is not visible - waiting...

[dgozman]

Proposed fix in #5603.

[aslushnikov]

The fix was merged in v1.9.1 and 1.9.1 is live!