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Hands-On Automated Testing with Playwright
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Uploading files is one of the most common interactions in web applications. In manual testing, this often means clicking a Choose File button, navigating through your system’s file picker, and selecting the right file. In automation, however, we can bypass those OS-level dialogs entirely and work directly with the underlying <input type="file"> element.
In most web apps, file uploads are handled through an HTML <input type="file"> element: you click a button, a file picker pops up, and you choose a file from your computer.
When you’re automating this with Playwright, you don’t have to pretend to be a human clicking through that dialog. Instead, Playwright’s setInputFiles() method lets you attach files directly to the input element, which skips the whole pop-up process. It’s quicker and more reliable, and saves you from wrestling with those...