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WebdriverIO Version

latest

Node.js Version

22.17

Mode

Standalone Mode

Which capabilities are you using?

What happened?

Chained selectors do not work in bidi like they do with webdriver classic.
For example, lets pretend a call like this:

await $('//div[@id="d1"]').$('./div[@id="d2"]').$('./div[@id="d3"]').waitForExist();

d1 and d2 are existing but d3 does not yet exist.
Now if d2 gets removed and added again to the dom, including d3, then d3 will never be found with bidi.
Like, it does not evaluate the whole chain again.
This works when "wdio:enforceWebDriverClassic": true is set, but not with bidi.

What is your expected behavior?

Evaluate chained elements in bidi, like it is with webdriver classic.

How to reproduce the bug.

https://github.com/muhserks/wdio

There is an example html and spec file.

Relevant log output

Please run example.

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Is there an existing issue for this?

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