### Any browser • Any platform • One API

**Cross-browser.** Playwright supports all modern rendering engines including Chromium, WebKit, and Firefox.

**Cross-platform.** Test on Windows, Linux, and macOS, locally or on CI, headless or headed.

**Cross-language.** Use the Playwright API in [TypeScript](https://playwright.dev/docs/intro), [JavaScript](https://playwright.dev/docs/intro), [Python](https://playwright.dev/python/docs/intro), [.NET](https://playwright.dev/dotnet/docs/intro), [Java](https://playwright.dev/java/docs/intro).

**Test Mobile Web.** Native mobile emulation of Google Chrome for Android and Mobile Safari. The same rendering engine works on your Desktop and in the Cloud.

Playwright enables reliable end-to-end testing for modern web apps.

Selenium supports automation of all the major browsers in the market through the use of _WebDriver_. WebDriver is an API and protocol that defines a language-neutral interface for controlling the behaviour of web browsers. Each browser is backed by a specific WebDriver implementation, called a _driver_. The driver is the component responsible for delegating down to the browser, and handles communication to and from Selenium and the browser.

WebDriver drives a browser natively, as a user would, either locally or on a remote machine using the Selenium server, marks a leap forward in terms of browser automation.

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