[Feature] `text=` selector to match <input type="text" placeholder="This is placeholder">

In my opinion one should also consider “placeholder” when searching an element(input) by text. This is because most of the inputs can be identified by placeholders when it does not have a value. Becomes very useful if one needs to fill Text based on input’s placeholder. So test code will look as follows Element: <input type="text" placeholder="This is placeholder"> Code: await page.fill(text="This is placeholder", "new value")

[dgozman]

This makes sense. The only question is whether to match placeholder when there is some text in the input?

• If we don’t, that would mean the previous selector does not work anymore after calling fill() which is not ideal.
• If we do, then we’ll get matches for the text that is not on the page anymore, because browser does not render placeholder for non-empty input, which is also not ideal.

Given that, perhaps leaving it explicit is the best? There would be no surprises, even though you’ll have to write [placeholder="text"].

[pavelfeldman]

I’ll close this as a part of the bug triaging process. We have hundreds of bugs and feature requests with dozens and even hundreds of upvotes, while this one only has a few thumbs up. Please feel free to open a new bug and link this one if you’d like to see it addressed.