page.getByPlaceholder() method return the locate the input elements by the placeholder text.

 

Signature

Locator getByPlaceholder(String text)
Locator getByPlaceholder(String text, GetByPlaceholderOptions options)
Locator getByPlaceholder(Pattern text)
Locator getByPlaceholder(Pattern text, GetByPlaceholderOptions options)

 

Example

ElementHandle elementHandle = page.getByPlaceholder("Enter your email id").elementHandle();

 

Find the below working application.

 

placeHolderDemo.html

 

html>

head> head>

body>

	form onsubmit="return false;">

		table>
			tr>
				td> label for="email">b>Emailb>label> td>
				td>input type="text" placeholder="Enter your email id" name="email" id="email" required> td>
			tr>

			tr>
				td> label for="password">b>Passwordb>label>td>
				td>input type="password" placeholder="Enter Password" name="password" id="password" required> td>
			tr>

			tr>
				td> label for="confirm-password">b>Repeat Passwordb>label> td>
				td>input type="password" placeholder="Repeat Password" name=confirm-password" id="confirm-password"
						required>td>
			tr>

			tr>
				td> input type="submit" value="submit" onclick="display()">td>
			tr>


		table>

	form>

	p id="result">p>

	script>
		function display() {
			let result = document.getElementById("result");
			let userEmail = document.querySelector('input[id="email"]').value;
			result.innerHTML = `Your email :  ${userEmail} is registered`
		}
	script>

body>

html>

 

FileUtil.java

package com.sample.app.util;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;

public class FileUtil {

	public static String resourceAsString(String resourceName) throws IOException {
		ClassLoader classLoader = FileUtil.class.getClassLoader();
		URL url = classLoader.getResource(resourceName);
		if (url == null) {
			return null;
		}

		URLConnection urlConnection = url.openConnection();

		urlConnection.setUseCaches(false);

		try (InputStreamReader inputStreamReader = new InputStreamReader(urlConnection.getInputStream())) {
			char[] buffer = new char[1048];
			StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();

			int count = -1;
			while ((count = inputStreamReader.read(buffer, 0, buffer.length)) != -1) {
				builder.append(buffer, 0, count);
			}

			return builder.toString();
		}

	}
}

 

GetLocatorByPlaceHolder.java

package com.sample.app.locators;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

import com.microsoft.playwright.Browser;
import com.microsoft.playwright.BrowserType;
import com.microsoft.playwright.ElementHandle;
import com.microsoft.playwright.Page;
import com.microsoft.playwright.Playwright;
import com.sample.app.util.FileUtil;

public class GetLocatorByPlaceHolder {
	public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
		try (Playwright playwright = Playwright.create()) {

			Browser browser = playwright.chromium()
					.launch(new BrowserType.LaunchOptions().setHeadless(false).setSlowMo(100));

			final String content = FileUtil.resourceAsString("locators" + File.separator + "placeHolderDemo.html");

			Page page = browser.newPage();
			page.setContent(content);

			ElementHandle elementHandle = page.getByPlaceholder("Enter your email id").elementHandle();
			String name = elementHandle.getAttribute("name");
			String id = elementHandle.getAttribute("id");
			String placeholder = elementHandle.getAttribute("placeholder");

			System.out.println("name : " + name);
			System.out.println("id : " + id);
			System.out.println("placeholder : " + placeholder);
		}
	}
}

 

Output

name : email
id : email
placeholder : Enter your email id

 

 

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