The file dialog belongs to the operating system, so no tool can click it. Playwright gives you a way around that for both directions.
Import a CSV, export an invoice, attach a document. Almost every business app does both, and both are awkward to test for the same reason: the file picker is an operating system window, not part of the page. No browser automation tool can click it.
Uploads.
You attach the file to the input directly:
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