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How to Handle a List of Elements in Playwright
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• Playwright is a powerful end-to-end testing tool
  that allows developers and testers to automate
  web applications across multiple browsers. One
  common task in automated testing is interacting
  with a list of elements, such as a collection of
  buttons, links, or table rows. In Playwright,
  handling a list of elements is straightforward,
  and understanding how to manage them effectively
  can enhance the robustness of your tests.

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Identifying a List of Elements

• To interact with a list of elements in
  Playwright, the first step is to locate the group
  of elements using an appropriate selector.
  Playwrights locator method can be used to
  identify elements based on tag names, CSS
  classes, IDs, or other attributes.
• For example, if you want to select all the
  ltbuttongt elements on a page
• javascript
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• const buttons await page.locator('button')
• In this case, buttons is a locator object that
  refers to all button elements on the page.

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Retrieving a List of Elements

• After identifying the list of elements, you can
  perform various actions such as retrieving their
  count, clicking them, or checking their
  properties. To work with multiple elements,
  Playwright offers methods like nth(), all(), and
  count().
• Counting Elements To determine how many elements
  are in the list
• javascript
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• const buttonCount await buttons.count()
• console.log(There are buttonCount buttons on
  the page.)

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Iterating Over Elements You can loop through the
list and perform actions on each element. For
instance, if you want to click each
button javascript Copy code for (let i 0 i lt
buttonCount i) await buttons.nth(i).click
() In this example, nth(i) allows you to
access each element in the list by index.
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• Getting Attributes or Text Content Playwright
  allows you to extract attributes or the text
  content of elements. For example, to get the text
  of all buttons
• javascript
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• for (let i 0 i lt buttonCount i)
• const buttonText await buttons.nth(i).textCo
  ntent()
• console.log(Button i 1 text
  buttonText)

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Because Playwrights actions are asynchronous,
handling lists of elements often requires
managing promises. Using Promise.all(), you can
execute actions concurrently for
efficiency javascript Copy code await
Promise.all(buttons.map(async (button) gt
await button.click() )) This ensures that all
elements are clicked in parallel, making the
process faster.
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Conclusion

• Handling a list of elements in Playwright
  involves selecting the elements with appropriate
  locators, retrieving their count, and iterating
  over them to perform actions like clicking or
  retrieving attributes. Playwrights powerful API
  makes it easy to manage complex interactions,
  ensuring reliable and efficient automation of web
  applications.
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