diff --git a/docs/src/selectors.md b/docs/src/selectors.md
index 0004a261a1e49..534d3404a0ca9 100644
--- a/docs/src/selectors.md
+++ b/docs/src/selectors.md
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ Text selector has a few variations:
   page.click("text=Log in")
   ```
 
-- `text="Log in"` - text body can be escaped with single or double quotes for full-string case-sensitive match. For example `text="Log"` does not match `<button>Log in</button>` but instead matches `<span>Log</span>`.
+- `text="Log in"` - text body can be escaped with single or double quotes for case-sensitive match. For example `text="Log"` does not match `<button>log in</button>` but instead matches `<span>Log in</span>`.
 
   Quoted body follows the usual escaping rules, e.g. use `\"` to escape double quote in a double-quoted string: `text="foo\"bar"`.
 
diff --git a/src/server/injected/injectedScript.ts b/src/server/injected/injectedScript.ts
index 562d152dfd4e5..1b2cfe35b9ea7 100644
--- a/src/server/injected/injectedScript.ts
+++ b/src/server/injected/injectedScript.ts
@@ -780,8 +780,8 @@ function createTextMatcher(selector: string): { matcher: Matcher, strict: boolea
   const matcher = (text: string) => {
     text = text.trim().replace(/\s+/g, ' ');
     if (!strict)
-      return text.toLowerCase().includes(selector);
-    return text === selector;
+      text = text.toLowerCase();
+    return text.includes(selector);
   };
   return { matcher, strict };
 }
diff --git a/src/server/injected/selectorEvaluator.ts b/src/server/injected/selectorEvaluator.ts
index cdbdbe023fda6..b7ff329178211 100644
--- a/src/server/injected/selectorEvaluator.ts
+++ b/src/server/injected/selectorEvaluator.ts
@@ -462,13 +462,15 @@ const hasTextEngine: SelectorEngine = {
   },
 };
 
-function textMatcher(text: string, substring: boolean): (s: string) => boolean {
+function textMatcher(text: string, caseInsensitive: boolean): (s: string) => boolean {
   text = text.trim().replace(/\s+/g, ' ');
-  text = text.toLowerCase();
+  if (caseInsensitive)
+    text = text.toLowerCase();
   return (s: string) => {
     s = s.trim().replace(/\s+/g, ' ');
-    s = s.toLowerCase();
-    return substring ? s.includes(text) : s === text;
+    if (caseInsensitive)
+      s = s.toLowerCase();
+    return s.includes(text);
   };
 }
 
diff --git a/test/selectors-text.spec.ts b/test/selectors-text.spec.ts
index 4be81595bb61e..e22ccd9a987d8 100644
--- a/test/selectors-text.spec.ts
+++ b/test/selectors-text.spec.ts
@@ -103,9 +103,9 @@ it('should work', async ({page}) => {
   expect((await page.$$(`text="Sign in"`)).length).toBe(1);
   expect(await page.$eval(`text=lo wo`, e => e.outerHTML)).toBe('<span>Hello\n \nworld</span>');
   expect(await page.$eval(`text="Hello world"`, e => e.outerHTML)).toBe('<span>Hello\n \nworld</span>');
-  expect(await page.$(`text="lo wo"`)).toBe(null);
+  expect(await page.$eval(`text="lo wo"`, e => e.outerHTML)).toBe('<span>Hello\n \nworld</span>');
   expect((await page.$$(`text=lo \nwo`)).length).toBe(1);
-  expect((await page.$$(`text="lo wo"`)).length).toBe(0);
+  expect((await page.$$(`text="lo \nwo"`)).length).toBe(1);
 });
 
 it('should work with :text', async ({page}) => {
@@ -113,9 +113,9 @@ it('should work with :text', async ({page}) => {
   expect(await page.$eval(`:text("ya")`, e => e.outerHTML)).toBe('<div>ya</div>');
   expect(await page.$eval(`:text-is("ya")`, e => e.outerHTML)).toBe('<div>ya</div>');
   expect(await page.$eval(`:text("y")`, e => e.outerHTML)).toBe('<div>yo</div>');
-  expect(await page.$(`:text-is("y")`)).toBe(null);
+  expect(await page.$(`:text-is("Y")`)).toBe(null);
   expect(await page.$eval(`:text("hello world")`, e => e.outerHTML)).toBe('<div>\nHELLO   \n world  </div>');
-  expect(await page.$eval(`:text-is("hello world")`, e => e.outerHTML)).toBe('<div>\nHELLO   \n world  </div>');
+  expect(await page.$eval(`:text-is("HELLO world")`, e => e.outerHTML)).toBe('<div>\nHELLO   \n world  </div>');
   expect(await page.$eval(`:text("lo wo")`, e => e.outerHTML)).toBe('<div>\nHELLO   \n world  </div>');
   expect(await page.$(`:text-is("lo wo")`)).toBe(null);
   expect(await page.$eval(`:text-matches("^[ay]+$")`, e => e.outerHTML)).toBe('<div>ya</div>');
@@ -145,11 +145,11 @@ it('should work across nodes', async ({page}) => {
   expect(await page.$(`text=hello world`)).toBe(null);
 
   expect(await page.$eval(`:text-is("Hello, world!")`, e => e.id)).toBe('target1');
-  expect(await page.$(`:text-is("Hello")`)).toBe(null);
+  expect(await page.$eval(`:text-is("Hello")`, e => e.id)).toBe('target1');
   expect(await page.$eval(`:text-is("world")`, e => e.id)).toBe('target2');
   expect(await page.$$eval(`:text-is("world")`, els => els.length)).toBe(1);
   expect(await page.$eval(`text="Hello, world!"`, e => e.id)).toBe('target1');
-  expect(await page.$(`text="Hello"`)).toBe(null);
+  expect(await page.$eval(`text="Hello"`, e => e.id)).toBe('target1');
   expect(await page.$eval(`text="world"`, e => e.id)).toBe('target2');
   expect(await page.$$eval(`text="world"`, els => els.length)).toBe(1);
 
@@ -162,6 +162,20 @@ it('should work across nodes', async ({page}) => {
   expect(await page.$$eval(`text=/world/`, els => els.length)).toBe(1);
 });
 
+it('should work with text nodes in quoted mode', async ({page}) => {
+  await page.setContent(`<div id=target1>Hello<span id=target2>wo  rld  </span>  Hi again  </div>`);
+  expect(await page.$eval(`text="Hello"`, e => e.id)).toBe('target1');
+  expect(await page.$eval(`text="Hi again"`, e => e.id)).toBe('target1');
+  expect(await page.$eval(`text="wo rld"`, e => e.id)).toBe('target2');
+  expect(await page.$eval(`text="Hellowo rld Hi again"`, e => e.id)).toBe('target1');
+  expect(await page.$eval(`text="Hellowo"`, e => e.id)).toBe('target1');
+  expect(await page.$eval(`text="Hellowo rld"`, e => e.id)).toBe('target1');
+  expect(await page.$eval(`text="wo rld Hi ag"`, e => e.id)).toBe('target1');
+  expect(await page.$eval(`text="again"`, e => e.id)).toBe('target1');
+  expect(await page.$(`text="hi again"`)).toBe(null);
+  expect(await page.$eval(`text=hi again`, e => e.id)).toBe('target1');
+});
+
 it('should clear caches', async ({page}) => {
   await page.setContent(`<div id=target1>text</div><div id=target2>text</div>`);
   const div = await page.$('#target1');
@@ -277,10 +291,10 @@ it('should be case sensitive if quotes are specified', async ({page}) => {
   expect(await page.$(`text="yA"`)).toBe(null);
 });
 
-it('should search for a substring without quotes', async ({page}) => {
+it('should search for a substring', async ({page}) => {
   await page.setContent(`<div>textwithsubstring</div>`);
   expect(await page.$eval(`text=with`, e => e.outerHTML)).toBe('<div>textwithsubstring</div>');
-  expect(await page.$(`text="with"`)).toBe(null);
+  expect(await page.$eval(`text="with"`, e => e.outerHTML)).toBe('<div>textwithsubstring</div>');
 });
 
 it('should skip head, script and style', async ({page}) => {