How to click on cookie popups and modal alerts in Playwright?

Modal pop-us are most commonly encountered as cookie consent popups or request to login popups. They are created using custom javascript that hide the content on page load and show some sort of message like this one:

There are multiple ways to handle modal pop-ups:

1. We can click on one of the values like "OK" or "Yes"
2. We can delete the modal element from the DOM

For example, let's take a look at web-scraping.dev/login page which on page load throws a cookie pop-up:

from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright, TimeoutError

with sync_playwright() as p:
    browser = p.chromium.launch(headless=False)
    page = browser.new_page()
    page.goto("https://web-scraping.dev/login")

    # Option #1 - use page.click() to click on the button
    try:
        page.click("#cookie-ok", timeout=2_000)
    except TimeoutError:
        print("no cookie popup")
    
    # Option #2 - delete the popup HTML
    #   remove pop up
    cookie_modal = page.query_selector("#cookieModal")
    if cookie_modal:
        cookie_modal.evaluate("el => el.remove()")
    #   remove grey backgdrop which covers the screen
    modal_backdrop = page.query_selector(".modal-backdrop")
    if modal_backdrop:
        modal_backdrop.evaluate("el => el.remove()")

Above, we explore two ways to handle modal pop-ups: clicking a button that would dismiss it and hard removing them from the DOM. Generally, the first approach is more reliable as the real button click can have functionality attached to it like setting a cookie so the pop-up doesn't appear again. For cases when it's a login requirement or advertisement the second approach is more suited.