🚀 Feature Request

it would be useful to be able to work out what 'class' an object is programmatically given the ILocator. Similar to the 'tag' functionality in selenium. By 'class' I mean button, text box, link etc.

Example

It would allow you to loop around a list of ILocators from your page object model and then datadrive it from a table. having got the ILocator you would then use a new method to get the object class and perform an action based on that similar to the code block below but not using javascript.

public async Task GetObjTypeAsync(ILocator locator)
{

if (await locator.IsVisibleAsync())
{
    string tagName = await locator.EvaluateAsync<string>("element => element.tagName");
    string typeName = await locator.EvaluateAsync<string>("element => element.getAttribute('type')");

    switch (typeName)
    {
        case "text":
        case "password":
            return "text";

        case "checkbox":
            return "checkbox";

        case "submit":
            return "button";
 
        default:
            if (tagName == "SELECT")
                return "dropDown";
            else if (tagName == "BODY")
                return "text";
            else if (tagName == "A")
                return "link";
            else
                return "";
            


    }




}

return "";

}

Motivation

this would support the use of frameworks and datadriving. This is helpful in a scenario where you are filling in a form from a datatable and only have the ILocator and the value. There doesn't appear to be a way to do this unless you rely on javascript (eg await locator.EvaluateAsync("element => element.getAttribute('type')");) which isn't enabled in some of our tests.