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Upstream added locator.within(parent). It is now available as a Within extension that reads in natural order. page.GetByRole("cell").Nth(1).Within(page.GetByRole("row")) picks the second cell of every row.

Highlights now resolve relative to the locator's frame. frame.Locator(...).HideHighlightAsync() clears the overlay in that frame, and page.HideHighlightAsync() clears every frame. Custom selector engine names can now contain -, as upstream allows.

The regex-flags test is ported too. .NET Regex has no g or y flag, so the /foo/g and /foo/y lines use the same pattern as /foo/. The local getBy scripts already reset lastIndex.

Closes #36, closes #59, closes #69

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kblok and others added 2 commits October 6, 2026 14:50
Add Locator.Within as a compat extension (upstream locator.within).
Port upstream implicit ARIA role mapping so getByRole finds table
cells, rows, lists and other elements. Resolve hideHighlight relative
to the locator's frame and clear highlights in every frame on
page.hideHighlight. Allow '-' in custom selector engine names, as
upstream does.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The PR adds Locator.Within and selector-name hyphen support, adds regex locator parity coverage, and updates locator highlight tracking and hiding to use locator frames across browser page implementations.

Changes: Frame-scoped locator highlighting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Frame-scoped highlight registration and hiding
src/PlaywrightNative/Locator.cs, src/PlaywrightNative/Helpers/PageHighlights.cs, src/PlaywrightNative/Page.cs, src/PlaywrightNative/Firefox/FirefoxPage.cs, src/PlaywrightNative/WebKit/WKPage.cs, src/PlaywrightNative.Tests/LibraryLocatorHighlightParityTests.cs
Highlight registry entries now include their frame, and registration and removal match both frame and ID. Locator highlight operations run in the locator’s frame. Page-level hiding evaluates the hide script in each page frame; child-frame PlaywrightException instances are ignored. Tests cover a main-world custom selector engine and separate highlights in the main page and an iframe.

Locator.Within

Layer / File(s) Summary
Add and test locator scoping
src/PlaywrightNative/LocatorCompatExtensions.cs, src/PlaywrightNative.Tests/LocatorQueryTests.cs
The public Within extension checks for a null parent and returns parent.Locator(locator). Tests cover scoped matches, empty results, and further Nth selection.

Regex locator parity coverage

Layer / File(s) Summary
Add repeated regex locator checks
src/PlaywrightNative.Tests/SelectorsGetByParityTests.cs
The test repeats regex locator count assertions for text, label, role-name, and placeholder selectors. It notes that .NET Regex has no global or sticky flags.

Selector engine name validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Allow hyphens in selector engine names
src/PlaywrightNative/Helpers/Selectors.cs
Selector engine name validation now permits hyphens alongside letters, digits, and underscores.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 3b66e

Firefox users calling page.HideHighlightAsync() will now get an exception instead of cleared highlights, and highlights on locators that enter an iframe may not be hidden correctly. Fix both before merging; the remaining items are small cleanups.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 3b66e

The inspected changes do not demonstrate a new security-boundary bypass. Locator scoping retains existing frame checks, and selector names remain data rather than executable code. The main concern is that shared highlight cleanup now depends on frame enumeration that Firefox does not implement. Remaining lifecycle and security-coverage uncertainty prevents a minimal-risk assessment.

Retained concerns

  • Low · reliability · observed: The shared cleanup path introduces an unsupported backend dependency: Firefox HideHighlightAsync now enumerates FirefoxPage.Frames, which always throws before any DOM cleanup runs. The base implementation evaluated cleanup directly. This breaks the cross-backend cleanup contract, although existing unsupported Firefox locator creation limits the demonstrated impact and no security compromise was established.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The new page-cleanup operation expands its DOM mutation scope from the page document to enumerated frames belonging to that page. The inspected path does not select other pages or browser contexts. Its demonstrated failure modes concern overlay cleanup and registry ownership, not a new host or cross-context privilege.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Accepted selector-engine names are resolved through dictionary lookup and JSON-serialized when embedded as JavaScript object keys. Registered engine scripts remain executable by design, with existing contentScript-based world selection. The hyphen change does not itself turn a name into executable source or remove that selection mechanism.
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Linked Issues check Passed The PR adds both tests required by #36 with the specified PlaywrightTest titles. The tests cover a main-world custom selector engine and frame-relative highlight cleanup. The PR adds ShouldSupportLoca…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The reviewed changes support the linked objectives. Frame-aware highlight registry changes support #36. Hyphenated selector engine names support the custom selector test in #36. Page-wide highlight cl…
Upstream Parity Passed The check applies because the PR names upstream files and commit context. All four added tests map to upstream tests, use the required [PlaywrightTest] annotations, and preserve the upstream assertion…
Title check Passed The title clearly identifies the two primary changes: adding Locator.Within and fixing frame-relative highlights.
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The PR adds both tests required by #36 with the specified PlaywrightTest titles. The tests cover a main-world custom selector engine and frame-relative highlight cleanup. The PR adds ShouldSupportLocatorWithin for #59 and adds the regex flag parity test required by #69. The Within implementation scopes through the parent locator. The highlight changes track the locator frame. The role mapping supports the table and row queries used by the Within test.

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The reviewed changes support the linked objectives. Frame-aware highlight registry changes support #36. Hyphenated selector engine names support the custom selector test in #36. Page-wide highlight cleanup supports the same highlight behavior. The Within extension and implicit role mapping support #59. The regex parity test supports #69. No unrelated change is established by the available PR evidence.

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The check applies because the PR names upstream files and commit context. All four added tests map to upstream tests, use the required [PlaywrightTest] annotations, and preserve the upstream assertions: locator-highlight.spec.ts lines 122 and 155, locator-query.spec.ts line 243, and selectors-get-by.spec.ts line 379 in microsoft/playwright@20a2087. The new Within extension maps to upstream client Locator.within at packages/playwright-core/src/client/locator.ts:191 and the highlight and hyphen-name changes map to upstream highlightController.ts and selectors.ts. No test expectation or skip change was added. No new generated file was added, and the changed upstream-derived helper files retain the required modification headers.

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@kblok kblok changed the title Add Locator.Within and fix frame-relative highlights and table roles Add Locator.Within and fix frame-relative highlights Oct 22, 2026

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Review comments at @src/PlaywrightNative.Tests/SelectorsGetByParityTests.cs:
- Line 528: Rename the async test method
LocatorsShouldNotBeAffectedByGlobalAndStickyRegexFlags to
LocatorsShouldNotBeAffectedByGlobalAndStickyRegexFlagsAsync, updating any
references to the method name.

Review comments at @src/PlaywrightNative/Firefox/FirefoxPage.cs:
- Line 1292: Update FirefoxPage’s explicit IPage.HideHighlightAsync
implementation so hiding highlights does not fail when
PageHighlights.HideAllAsync accesses the unsupported FirefoxPage.Frames
property; provide usable frame enumeration or retain a Firefox-compatible
clearing path that evaluates the hide script.

Review comments at @src/PlaywrightNative/Helpers/PageHighlights.cs:
- Line 109: Update the page-level hiding flow that calls EvaluateAsync with
HideAllHighlightsFunction to skip frames without a usable context or bound each
frame attempt, so an unloaded lazy iframe cannot delay HideHighlightAsync;
preserve the existing child-frame exception handling.

Review comments at @src/PlaywrightNative/Helpers/Selectors.cs:
- Around line 70-71: Update the invalid-name exception in NameIsValid to include
hyphens in its allowed-character guidance, so the message matches the validation
rule.

Review comments at @src/PlaywrightNative/Locator.cs:
- Line 1343: Update the overlay registration in the locator highlight flow to
store the frame that owns the resolved element, rather than the locator’s
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[PlaywrightTest("selectors-get-by.spec.ts", "locators should not be affected by global and sticky regex flags")]
[Test]
[Timeout(TestConstants.DefaultTestTimeout)]
public async Task LocatorsShouldNotBeAffectedByGlobalAndStickyRegexFlags()

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add the required Async suffix.

LocatorsShouldNotBeAffectedByGlobalAndStickyRegexFlags is an async method without the Async suffix. Rename it to LocatorsShouldNotBeAffectedByGlobalAndStickyRegexFlagsAsync. As per coding guidelines, “VSTHRD200 (error) | Async methods must have Async suffix.” (microsoft.github.io)

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Review comment at @src/PlaywrightNative.Tests/SelectorsGetByParityTests.cs at
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PageHighlights.Clear(this);
await EvaluateAsync(ElementStateScript.HideAllHighlightsFunction).ConfigureAwait(false);
}
Task IPage.HideHighlightAsync() => PageHighlights.HideAllAsync(this);

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Keep Firefox page-level hiding usable.

PageHighlights.HideAllAsync(this) always enumerates page.Frames, but FirefoxPage.Frames throws NotImplementedHelper.ForMethod. Every Firefox call to page.HideHighlightAsync() now fails instead of evaluating the hide script as the previous implementation did. Implement frame enumeration for Firefox or retain a Firefox-compatible clearing path.

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Review comment at @src/PlaywrightNative/Firefox/FirefoxPage.cs at line 1292:
Update FirefoxPage’s explicit IPage.HideHighlightAsync implementation so hiding
highlights does not fail when PageHighlights.HideAllAsync accesses the
unsupported FirefoxPage.Frames property; provide usable frame enumeration or
retain a Firefox-compatible clearing path that evaluates the hide script.

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registry.Entries.Clear();
try
{
await frame.EvaluateAsync(ElementStateScript.HideAllHighlightsFunction).ConfigureAwait(false);

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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Avoid waiting on unloaded frames during page-level hiding.

WebKitFrame.EvaluateAsync can wait for a frame context before it evaluates the hide script. An unloaded lazy iframe can therefore delay page.HideHighlightAsync() before the child-frame exception is suppressed. Skip frames without a usable context or bound the per-frame attempt.

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Review comment at @src/PlaywrightNative/Helpers/PageHighlights.cs at line 109:
Update the page-level hiding flow that calls EvaluateAsync with
HideAllHighlightsFunction to skip frames without a usable context or bound each
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Comment on lines +70 to +71
|| c == '_'
|| c == '-';

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Update the validation error to include hyphens.

NameIsValid now accepts -, but the exception at Line 46 still reports only [a-zA-Z0-9_] as valid. An invalid-name error can therefore give callers incorrect correction guidance. Update the message to include -.

Proposed fix
-                throw new PlaywrightException("selectors.register: Selector engine name may only contain [a-zA-Z0-9_] characters");
+                throw new PlaywrightException("selectors.register: Selector engine name may only contain [a-zA-Z0-9_-] characters");
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string payload = "{\"tooltip\":" + JsonSerializer.Serialize(tooltip) + ",\"style\":" + JsonSerializer.Serialize(style ?? string.Empty) + ",\"id\":" + JsonSerializer.Serialize(tooltip) + "}";
await handle.EvaluateAsync<bool>(ElementStateScript.HighlightFunction, payload).ConfigureAwait(false);
PageHighlights.Remember(Page, this, style, tooltip);
PageHighlights.Remember(Page, _frame, this, style, tooltip);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Register and hide overlays in the resolved element’s frame.

When a locator enters an iframe through ContentFrame or a frame-locator chain, WaitForHandleAsync can return a child-frame element while _frame remains the starting frame. Line 1342 creates the overlay in the child frame, but this registration records _frame. HideHighlightAsync then evaluates the hide script in _frame, so the child overlay remains visible. Store the resolved owner frame with the overlay and use that frame for locator-level hiding. The new test uses frame.Locator("button"); it does not cover a locator that enters the frame.

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Review comment at @src/PlaywrightNative/Locator.cs at line 1343:
Update the overlay registration in the locator highlight flow to store the frame
that owns the resolved element, rather than the locator’s starting `_frame`, and
make `HideHighlightAsync` use that same owner frame to hide the overlay.
Preserve the existing behavior for elements resolved in the starting frame.

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