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why does the getByPlaceholder locator not work in playwright?
The getByPlaceholder locator is not a standard method provided by Playwright. Playwright offers a set of locator strategies to target elements, such as page.locator(selector) where selector can be a string using CSS selectors, text selectors, or other Playwright-specific selector engines. If you are trying to locate an element by its placeholder text, you would typically use a CSS attribute selector or XPath. For example, to find an input element with a specific placeholder, you might use: ```
const input = page.locator(‘input[placeholder=“Your Placeholder Text”]’);
That link doesn’t work - fyi
According to the dev site, the getByLocators are a standard method:
What locators can I use in Pipedream for Playwright?