playwright/docs/src/README.md

---
id: README
title: "Documentation"
---

### Capabilities

Playwright is a library to automate [Chromium](https://www.chromium.org/Home), [Firefox](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/) and [WebKit](https://webkit.org/) with a single API. Playwright is built to enable cross-browser web automation that is **ever-green**, **capable**, **reliable** and **fast**.

* Ever-green browser engines
* Headless execution
* Scenarios that span multiple pages, domains and iframes
* Auto-wait for elements to be ready before executing actions (like click, fill)
* Reliable signals instead of timeouts (like network response, popup, navigation)
* Intercept network activity for stubbing and mocking network requests
* Emulate mobile devices, geolocation, permissions
* Support for web components via shadow-piercing selectors
* Native input events for mouse and keyboard
* Upload and download files

### Table of contents

1. Introduction
    - [Why Playwright?](./why-playwright.md)
    - [Get started](./intro.md)
    - [Core concepts](./core-concepts.md)
    - [Debugging](./debug.md)
    - [Supported languages](./languages.md)
1. Guides
    - [Selectors](./selectors.md)
    - [Input](./input.md)
    - [Emulation](./emulation.md)
    - [Network](./network.md)
    - [Assertions](./assertions.md)
    - [Verification](./verification.md)
    - [Navigations](./navigations.md)
    - [Multi-page scenarios](./multi-pages.md)
1. Tutorials
    - [Authentication](./auth.md)
    - [Page object models](./pom.md)
1. Integrations
    - [Test runners](./test-runners.md)
    - [Docker](./docker.md)
    - [Continuous integration](./ci.md)
1. Reference
    - [API Reference](./api/class-playwright.md)
    - [Actionability](./actionability.md)
    - [Advanced installation](./installation.md)
    - [Extensibility](./extensibility.md)
1. Get help
    - [Slack community](https://join.slack.com/t/playwright/shared_invite/enQtOTEyMTUxMzgxMjIwLThjMDUxZmIyNTRiMTJjNjIyMzdmZDA3MTQxZWUwZTFjZjQwNGYxZGM5MzRmNzZlMWI5ZWUyOTkzMjE5Njg1NDg)
    - [Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/tags/playwright)
    - [GitHub](https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues)
doc: split classes into files (#4864) 2021-01-02 00:17:27 +01:00			`---`
			`id: README`
			`title: "Documentation"`
			`---`

			`### Capabilities`

			`Playwright is a library to automate [Chromium](https://www.chromium.org/Home), [Firefox](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/) and [WebKit](https://webkit.org/) with a single API. Playwright is built to enable cross-browser web automation that is ever-green, capable, reliable and fast.`

			`* Ever-green browser engines`
			`* Headless execution`
			`* Scenarios that span multiple pages, domains and iframes`
			`* Auto-wait for elements to be ready before executing actions (like click, fill)`
			`* Reliable signals instead of timeouts (like network response, popup, navigation)`
			`* Intercept network activity for stubbing and mocking network requests`
			`* Emulate mobile devices, geolocation, permissions`
			`* Support for web components via shadow-piercing selectors`
			`* Native input events for mouse and keyboard`
			`* Upload and download files`

			`### Table of contents`

			`1. Introduction`
			`- [Why Playwright?](./why-playwright.md)`
			`- [Get started](./intro.md)`
			`- [Core concepts](./core-concepts.md)`
			`- [Debugging](./debug.md)`
			`- [Supported languages](./languages.md)`
			`1. Guides`
			`- [Selectors](./selectors.md)`
			`- [Input](./input.md)`
			`- [Emulation](./emulation.md)`
			`- [Network](./network.md)`
			`- [Assertions](./assertions.md)`
			`- [Verification](./verification.md)`
			`- [Navigations](./navigations.md)`
			`- [Multi-page scenarios](./multi-pages.md)`
			`1. Tutorials`
			`- [Authentication](./auth.md)`
			`- [Page object models](./pom.md)`
			`1. Integrations`
			`- [Test runners](./test-runners.md)`
doc: further align docs w/ playwright.dev (2) (#4871) 2021-01-04 22:50:29 +01:00			`- [Docker](./docker.md)`
doc: split classes into files (#4864) 2021-01-02 00:17:27 +01:00			`- [Continuous integration](./ci.md)`
			`1. Reference`
doc: further align docs w/ playwright.dev (#4866) 2021-01-03 17:47:29 +01:00			`- [API Reference](./api/class-playwright.md)`
doc: split classes into files (#4864) 2021-01-02 00:17:27 +01:00			`- [Actionability](./actionability.md)`
			`- [Advanced installation](./installation.md)`
			`- [Extensibility](./extensibility.md)`
			`1. Get help`
			`- [Slack community](https://join.slack.com/t/playwright/shared_invite/enQtOTEyMTUxMzgxMjIwLThjMDUxZmIyNTRiMTJjNjIyMzdmZDA3MTQxZWUwZTFjZjQwNGYxZGM5MzRmNzZlMWI5ZWUyOTkzMjE5Njg1NDg)`
			`- [Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/tags/playwright)`
			`- [GitHub](https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues)`