diff --git a/browser_tests/assets/string_node_id.json b/browser_tests/assets/string_node_id.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..275f81177
--- /dev/null
+++ b/browser_tests/assets/string_node_id.json
@@ -0,0 +1,377 @@
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+  "last_link_id": 18,
+  "nodes": [
+    {
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+      "type": "CheckpointLoaderSimple",
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+        "1": 130
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+        "1": 98
+      },
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+      "mode": 0,
+      "inputs": [],
+      "outputs": [
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+          "type": "MODEL",
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+            11
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+        }
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+      },
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+        "v1-5-pruned-emaonly.ckpt"
+      ]
+    },
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+        "1": 130
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+      },
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+        {
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+      ],
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+          "type": "CONDITIONING",
+          "links": [
+            13
+          ],
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+      ],
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+      },
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+      ]
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+      "mode": 0,
+      "inputs": [
+        {
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+          "type": "CLIP",
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+        }
+      ],
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+        {
+          "name": "CONDITIONING",
+          "type": "CONDITIONING",
+          "links": [
+            14
+          ],
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+        }
+      ],
+      "properties": {
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+      ]
+    },
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+      },
+      "flags": {},
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+      "mode": 0,
+      "inputs": [],
+      "outputs": [
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+          "type": "LATENT",
+          "links": [
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+          ],
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+        }
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+        512,
+        1
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+        {
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+        },
+        {
+          "name": "negative",
+          "type": "CONDITIONING",
+          "link": 14
+        },
+        {
+          "name": "latent_image",
+          "type": "LATENT",
+          "link": 15
+        }
+      ],
+      "outputs": [
+        {
+          "name": "LATENT",
+          "type": "LATENT",
+          "links": [
+            16
+          ],
+          "shape": 3
+        }
+      ],
+      "properties": {
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+        20,
+        8,
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+        "normal",
+        1
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+      "type": "VAEDecode",
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+        "1": 130
+      },
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+        "1": 46
+      },
+      "flags": {},
+      "order": 5,
+      "mode": 0,
+      "inputs": [
+        {
+          "name": "samples",
+          "type": "LATENT",
+          "link": 16
+        },
+        {
+          "name": "vae",
+          "type": "VAE",
+          "link": 17
+        }
+      ],
+      "outputs": [
+        {
+          "name": "IMAGE",
+          "type": "IMAGE",
+          "links": [
+            18
+          ],
+          "shape": 3
+        }
+      ],
+      "properties": {
+        "Node name for S&R": "VAEDecode"
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "SaveImage.0",
+      "type": "SaveImage",
+      "pos": {
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+        "1": 130
+      },
+      "size": {
+        "0": 315,
+        "1": 58
+      },
+      "flags": {},
+      "order": 6,
+      "mode": 0,
+      "inputs": [
+        {
+          "name": "images",
+          "type": "IMAGE",
+          "link": 18
+        }
+      ],
+      "outputs": [],
+      "properties": {},
+      "widgets_values": [
+        "ComfyUI"
+      ]
+    }
+  ],
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+    [
+      10,
+      "CheckpointLoaderSimple.0",
+      1,
+      "CLIPTextEncode.0",
+      0,
+      "CLIP"
+    ],
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+      "CheckpointLoaderSimple.0",
+      1,
+      "CLIPTextEncode.1",
+      0,
+      "CLIP"
+    ],
+    [
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+      "CheckpointLoaderSimple.0",
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+      "KSampler.0",
+      0,
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+    ],
+    [
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+      "CLIPTextEncode.0",
+      0,
+      "KSampler.0",
+      1,
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+    ],
+    [
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+      "CLIPTextEncode.1",
+      0,
+      "KSampler.0",
+      2,
+      "CONDITIONING"
+    ],
+    [
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+      "EmptyLatentImage.0",
+      0,
+      "KSampler.0",
+      3,
+      "LATENT"
+    ],
+    [
+      16,
+      "KSampler.0",
+      0,
+      "VAEDecode.0",
+      0,
+      "LATENT"
+    ],
+    [
+      17,
+      "CheckpointLoaderSimple.0",
+      2,
+      "VAEDecode.0",
+      1,
+      "VAE"
+    ],
+    [
+      18,
+      "VAEDecode.0",
+      0,
+      "SaveImage.0",
+      0,
+      "IMAGE"
+    ]
+  ],
+  "groups": [],
+  "config": {},
+  "extra": {
+    "ds": {
+      "scale": 1,
+      "offset": [
+        149.9747408641311,
+        383.8593224280729
+      ]
+    }
+  },
+  "version": 0.4
+}
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diff --git a/browser_tests/interaction.spec.ts b/browser_tests/interaction.spec.ts
index 432010cc8..82ac55972 100644
--- a/browser_tests/interaction.spec.ts
+++ b/browser_tests/interaction.spec.ts
@@ -337,3 +337,10 @@ test.describe('Widget Interaction', () => {
     await expect(textBox).toHaveValue('1girl')
   })
 })
+
+test.describe('Load workflow', () => {
+  test('Can load workflow with string node id', async ({ comfyPage }) => {
+    await comfyPage.loadWorkflow('string_node_id')
+    await expect(comfyPage.canvas).toHaveScreenshot('string_node_id.png')
+  })
+})