Can't click or find elements on page without a slight pause/time.sleep() first

[authauthentic8]

Can't click or find elements on page without a slight pause/time.sleep() first

[aspenboy]

In my case I've created a simple function:

def wrapped_click(locator):
    locator.wait_for()
    locator.click()

without it Playwright seems to be... too fast?

I guess it depends also on how the frontend is built (I have an app which is over 10 years old, so there are parts which doesn't meet current standards of UI dev).

[authauthentic8]

@aspenboy Was this on the popup page of a chrome extension? I have the same thing you're suggesting for the other pages of my extension and it works fine. It's only on the popup.html page of my extension that i have to use a time.sleep(3) before trying to interact with a locator.

[authauthentic8]

@aspenboy I just realized that wasn't included in the original post. I narrowed it down to the popup.html page after I made this post.

[mxschmitt]

Sounds not like a Playwright issue and more like an issue of the extension you are testing. Playwright is like a very fast user, and often this is too fast for the websites users are testing, ending up in race conditions, hydration issues etc.

[mxschmitt]

Closing as per above. Feel free to re-file for further questions.