[Bug]: Using force:true to click on an element overlapped by another element will not click or error out

[adrianmaciuc]

Version

1.40

Steps to reproduce

1. Navigate to google in incognito mode
2. Do not click the user consent
3. Input random text in search field
4. Attempt to click search using force:true

Expected behavior

Click to be performed OR Playwright to error out that click was not performed and test to fail

Actual behavior

Click is not performed, test will pass

Additional context

test("The force", async ({ page }) => {
  await page.goto("https://www.google.com/");
  
  // the search input field
  await page.locator('textarea').first().fill("martioli")
  // the search button
  await page.locator('[type=submit][name="btnK"]').last().click({ force: true })
});

if I would add an extra step to accept the consent popup, then it would click the search button with no problem.

Environment

CPU: (4) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7600 CPU @ 3.50GHz
    Memory: 8.81 GB / 15.91 GB
  Binaries:
    Node: 18.19.0 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.EXE
    Yarn: 1.22.21 - ~\AppData\Roaming\npm\yarn.CMD
    npm: 10.2.3 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\npm.CMD
  IDEs:
    VSCode: 1.89.1 - C:\Microsoft VS Code\bin\code.CMD
  npmPackages:
    @playwright/test: ^1.40.0 => 1.42.1

[yury-s]

Do not click the user consent

There is no user consent dialog and the test passes for me just fine. Please provide a self contained test with page that doesn't depend on third-party, so that we could reproduce it locally.

[yury-s]

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