Playwright finds too much elements by text

Question

I tried to find all the elements that has the text "Operation" inside them. I only see one such element visible, but Playwright is giving me 19:

 self.page.locator('*', has_text='Operation').click()

When I run this selector in the developer tools:

$x('//*[contains( text(),"Operation" )]')

I see only a single element.

What am I doing wrong here?

maybe looking inside a specific div or container will be more robust. looking inside the whole page can show such inconsistencies imho. — Kiran Parajuli, Aug 02 '22 at 08:44

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 02 '22 at 09:51

You can use the text locator and also add more Texts along with Operation to pinpoint your element more accurately.

page.locator("text=Operation").click()
page.locator("text=Some more words Operation").click()

Or, you can also use the Nth element selector if you know the position of the text occurrence. Starts from 0

page.locator("text=Operation >> nth=0").click()

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