I'm using playwright version 0.13.0,

I have an instance of ElementHandle, but the getAttribute function is not available, calling it throws an error saying getAttribute is not a function:

await myElem.getAttribute('src')

I double-checked with the debugger, the function is not on the instance.

Also, there's no equivalent of page.evaluate function for ElementHandle

I'm using playwright version 0.13.0,

I have an instance of ElementHandle, but the getAttribute function is not available, calling it throws an error saying getAttribute is not a function:

await myElem.getAttribute('src')

I double-checked with the debugger, the function is not on the instance.

Also, there's no equivalent of page.evaluate function for ElementHandle

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• playwright

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You can pass it as an argument to the page.evaluate function:

await page.evaluate(el => el.getAttribute('src'), myElem);

or

await myElem.evaluate(node => node.getAttribute('src');

For new ers to this, later versions of Playwright support the API used by OP. See: https://playwright.dev/docs/api/class-elementhandle#elementhandlegetattributename

This worked for me:

const attr = await page.$eval('.your-locator-class', el => el.src)

You can easily solved it using playwright native getter - .getAttribute('someAttribute');

For example you can write something like that:

const locator = await page.locator('[name="SomeLocator"]').getAttribute('content');