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# How to Fix "Wait Not Respected" Error in Playwright

<Tip>
  If you're using Playwright for end-to-end testing, you should check out [Playwright Check Suites](/detect/synthetic-monitoring/playwright-checks/overview) and start testing in production.
</Tip>

Our script might sometimes look as if it were not honoring the waits we are specifying, instead proceeding and potentially running into an error on the next instruction.

For example: we are waiting for an element, e.g. with `page.waitForSelector`, but the script immediately proceeds to the next instruction. This can result in an [element not found error](#element-not-found) or similar on the following step in our script.

## Possible causes

* **Not-so-obvious possible cause:** the element we are waiting for is already in the DOM, possibly not visible in our inspection but already matching our `state` requirements.

## How to avoid confusion

Try querying for the element in the browser console during inspection. If the element is found, inspect its attributes (e.g. `visibility`) and ensure they match your expectations.

> Note that this list neither is nor aims to be complete: additional possible causes most likely exist for this error.