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 by [Bernardas Alisauskas](https://scrapfly.io/blog/author/bernardas) Nov 03, 2022 1 min read [\#playwright](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/playwright) [\#python](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/python) 

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The most popular way to parse HTML content in web scraping are [CSS selectors](https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/parsing-html-with-css) which are the default way to locate elements in Playwright as well. To find elements using CSS selectors we can use `page.locator()` method. For example:

python```python
from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright

with sync_playwright() as pw:
    browser = pw.chromium.launch(headless=False)
    context = browser.new_context(viewport={"width": 1920, "height": 1080})
    page = context.new_page()
    page.goto("https://google.com/")

    h2_element = page.locator("h2.some-class")
```



⚠ It's possible that these commands will try to find elements *before* the page has fully loaded if it's a dynamic javascript page. For more see [How to wait for page to load in Playwright?](https://scrapfly.io/blog/answers/how-to-wait-for-page-to-load-in-playwright)

Also see: [How to find elements by XPath selectors in Playwright?](https://scrapfly.io/blog/answers/how-to-find-elements-by-xpath-in-playwright)



 

    



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