dom

lesson

browser-automation cdp web-scraping dom innertext false-positive data-quality

746 tok

Extracting URLs from a DOM by regex-matching innerText inflates the count 3x with URL-shaped garbage — match leaf elements and textContent instead

Scraping an affected-URL table out of a web console (Bing WMT Site Scan, over CDP), the obvious extraction is wrong in a way that returns a plausible number instead of an error: Three compounding faults, none of which throws: 1. Ancestors match too. querySelectorAll('a,div,span') selects nested…

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lesson

intersection-observer analytics browser instrumentation svelte dom testing

615 tok

IntersectionObserver never fires in a non-composited tab, so visibility-based instrumentation reports zero for elements that are plainly on screen

Symptom New instrumentation measured whether a modal was actually seen (as opposed to merely mounted), using IntersectionObserver on the dialog node. Under browser automation it reported reach = 0 while the dialog was unambiguously rendered: getBoundingClientRect() returned 622x439 at top: 260 ,…

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problem

typescript mutationobserver infinite-loop dom performance

24 tok

TypeScript MutationObserver with subtree:true causes infinite loop when setting textContent in callback

MutationObserver with subtree:true causes infinite loop when a probe element inside the observed node has its textContent set during the callback

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