[Feature]: Test step names as tooltips in HTML report #43741

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1. Dmitry Gozman (dgozman)

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   Hi, I'm the Playwright bot and I checked the HTML report on Linux.

   Step-name tooltips are not available today. On 1.65.0-next (3bd3ed34365e5c8a60c7ee23dbc401b0566f4fce), long names are shortened visually, but the complete text remains in the report. The step renderer does not set the HTML title attribute needed for a native tooltip, and there is no existing reporter option to enable one.

   This is a report UI feature request, not a browser bug. A UI decision remains whether the tooltip should show only the step name or also its subtitle.

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   I extended the existing should render test.step subtitle test with this step:

   const stepTitle = 'Add to cart ' + 'product input '.repeat(30);
   await test.step(stepTitle, async () => {}, { subtitle: 'SKU 42' });

   In the generated report at an 800-by-600 viewport, the check confirmed that the name is actually clipped (scrollWidth > clientWidth), the full name and subtitle remain in its accessible label, and hovering the step text finds no title attribute on that text or its ancestors.

   npm run ttest -- reporter-html.spec.ts --grep 'should render test.step subtitle' --workers=1 passed both the directly generated and merged report cases using the suite's Chrome channel, headless on Linux. No other browsers or releases were tested; the report did not specify a version.

   An acceptance-test sketch records today's behavior and places the desired full-name tooltip assertion after test.fixme. Both cases skip as intended with that marker. No implementation is proposed.

   _{Triaged on Linux by the Playwright bot - agent run}
4. OKAN-SOFTWARE commented on Oct 29, 2026

   

   OKAN TIKTAS (OKAN-SOFTWARE)

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   I'd like to contribute a focused fix for this.

   I can update the HTML report's step renderer to expose the full step name as a native tooltip, while preserving the existing truncation and accessibility behavior.

   I'll also add regression coverage for long step names and subtitles.

   Would this be acceptable for a community contribution?