In Playwright, hide a cookie banner in the screenshot by injecting a CSS rule with the screenshot API’s style option. Use a selector that matches the banner on the page you are capturing:
await page.screenshot({
path: 'page.png',
style: '.cookie-banner { display: none !important; }'
});Replace .cookie-banner with the real selector for that site. This changes what appears in the image; it does not accept, reject, or record the visitor’s consent.
Hide the banner with Playwright’s screenshot-time CSS
Playwright’s page.screenshot() accepts a style string containing CSS to apply while the screenshot is taken. The API documents this option as available from Playwright v1.41. See the Page API screenshot options.
await page.screenshot({
path: 'page.png',
style: '#actual-consent-banner { display: none !important; }'
});The selector is illustrative: there is no universal cookie-banner selector. Inspect the target page and use a selector that identifies its banner without hiding unrelated content.
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- Open the target page in the Playwright browser context.
- Inspect the banner in the page’s DOM and identify a suitably specific CSS selector, such as an ID or class used by that banner.
- Use that selector in the screenshot’s
stylestring, followed bydisplay: none !important;. - Capture the image and inspect it to confirm the banner is gone and the intended page content remains visible.
Playwright locators support CSS selectors; its locator documentation shows selectors such as button in use. The selector still needs to fit the specific site. See Playwright locators.
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Capture a viewport or the full page
Hiding the banner and choosing how much of the page to capture are separate settings. For the viewport, omit fullPage. To capture the full scrollable page, set fullPage: true:
await page.screenshot({
path: 'page-without-banner.png',
fullPage: true,
style: '#actual-consent-banner { display: none !important; }'
});Playwright documents fullPage as capturing the full scrollable page. See Playwright screenshots.
Choose CSS hiding or a mask based on the result you need
- Use screenshot-time CSS when the goal is to make the banner invisible in the image so the content underneath can show.
- Use a mask when the goal is to cover an element with a solid-color overlay, for example in a screenshot comparison. A mask covers the element’s bounding box rather than revealing what is behind it. See the Page API screenshot options.
- Use a separate consent-flow test when you need to verify that a user’s preference is accepted, rejected, or saved. Screenshot styling alone does not demonstrate that any consent state changed.
Troubleshoot a banner that still appears
The selector does not match
Check the target page’s DOM and confirm the selector identifies the visible banner. A made-up or generic selector will not reliably match every site.
The rule hides the wrong element
Make the selector more specific to the banner, then inspect the resulting screenshot to ensure page content was not also hidden.
You expected the consent choice to persist
The style option is for screenshot rendering. It is not a consent interaction and does not establish that a preference was stored. Test the intended consent control and resulting state separately.
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