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What's with the xpath selector? Is that just matching deeply nested elements?

c-hendricks 49 days ago [–]

Going from memory, but that's how many elements are in the tree between what I wanted to be hidden and where the matching text/elements actually lived.

pimlottc 48 days ago | [–]

Oh jeez, I hadn’t thought about the blocked element being different than the aria-tagged one. What a nightmare

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