diff --git a/src/console.ts b/src/console.ts
index 528146a75d..71d6304d77 100644
--- a/src/console.ts
+++ b/src/console.ts
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ export class ConsoleMessage {
 
   text(): string {
     if (this._text === undefined)
-      this._text = this._args.map(arg => arg._handleToString(false /* includeType */)).join(' ');
+      this._text = this._args.map(arg => arg._value).join(' ');
     return this._text;
   }
 
diff --git a/src/dom.ts b/src/dom.ts
index 411b63bb6a..3aa057743c 100644
--- a/src/dom.ts
+++ b/src/dom.ts
@@ -121,6 +121,12 @@ export class ElementHandle<T extends Node = Node> extends js.JSHandle<T> {
     this._objectId = objectId;
     this._context = context;
     this._page = context.frame._page;
+    this._initializePreview().catch(e => {});
+  }
+
+  async _initializePreview() {
+    const utility = await this._context.injectedScript();
+    this._preview = await utility.evaluate((injected, e) => 'JSHandle@' + injected.previewNode(e), this);
   }
 
   asElement(): ElementHandle<T> | null {
diff --git a/src/injected/injectedScript.ts b/src/injected/injectedScript.ts
index 38f449abb7..6ba3f5aa40 100644
--- a/src/injected/injectedScript.ts
+++ b/src/injected/injectedScript.ts
@@ -487,18 +487,29 @@ export default class InjectedScript {
     return element;
   }
 
-  previewElement(element: Element): string {
+  previewNode(node: Node): string {
+    if (node.nodeType === Node.TEXT_NODE)
+      return oneLine(`#text=${node.nodeValue || ''}`);
+    if (node.nodeType !== Node.ELEMENT_NODE)
+      return oneLine(`<${node.nodeName.toLowerCase()} />`);
+    const element = node as Element;
+
     const attrs = [];
     for (let i = 0; i < element.attributes.length; i++) {
-      if (element.attributes[i].name !== 'style')
-        attrs.push(` ${element.attributes[i].name}="${element.attributes[i].value}"`);
+      const { name, value } = element.attributes[i];
+      if (name === 'style')
+        continue;
+      if (!value && booleanAttributes.has(name))
+        attrs.push(` ${name}`);
+      else
+        attrs.push(` ${name}="${value}"`);
     }
     attrs.sort((a, b) => a.length - b.length);
     let attrText = attrs.join('');
     if (attrText.length > 50)
       attrText = attrText.substring(0, 49) + '\u2026';
     if (autoClosingTags.has(element.nodeName))
-      return `<${element.nodeName.toLowerCase()}${attrText}/>`;
+      return oneLine(`<${element.nodeName.toLowerCase()}${attrText}/>`);
 
     const children = element.childNodes;
     let onlyText = false;
@@ -507,14 +518,19 @@ export default class InjectedScript {
       for (let i = 0; i < children.length; i++)
         onlyText = onlyText && children[i].nodeType === Node.TEXT_NODE;
     }
-    let text = onlyText ? (element.textContent || '') : '';
+    let text = onlyText ? (element.textContent || '') : (children.length ? '\u2026' : '');
     if (text.length > 50)
       text = text.substring(0, 49) + '\u2026';
-    return `<${element.nodeName.toLowerCase()}${attrText}>${text}</${element.nodeName.toLowerCase()}>`;
+    return oneLine(`<${element.nodeName.toLowerCase()}${attrText}>${text}</${element.nodeName.toLowerCase()}>`);
   }
 }
 
 const autoClosingTags = new Set(['AREA', 'BASE', 'BR', 'COL', 'COMMAND', 'EMBED', 'HR', 'IMG', 'INPUT', 'KEYGEN', 'LINK', 'MENUITEM', 'META', 'PARAM', 'SOURCE', 'TRACK', 'WBR']);
+const booleanAttributes = new Set(['checked', 'selected', 'disabled', 'readonly', 'multiple']);
+
+function oneLine(s: string): string {
+  return s.replace(/\n/g, '↵').replace(/\t/g, '⇆');
+}
 
 const eventType = new Map<string, 'mouse'|'keyboard'|'touch'|'pointer'|'focus'|'drag'>([
   ['auxclick', 'mouse'],
diff --git a/src/javascript.ts b/src/javascript.ts
index 6faa030064..01da04c7c6 100644
--- a/src/javascript.ts
+++ b/src/javascript.ts
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import * as utilityScriptSource from './generated/utilityScriptSource';
 import * as sourceMap from './utils/sourceMap';
 import { serializeAsCallArgument } from './common/utilityScriptSerializers';
 import { helper } from './helper';
+import UtilityScript from './injected/utilityScript';
 
 type ObjectId = string;
 export type RemoteObject = {
@@ -47,7 +48,7 @@ export class ExecutionContext {
     return null;
   }
 
-  utilityScript(): Promise<JSHandle> {
+  utilityScript(): Promise<JSHandle<UtilityScript>> {
     if (!this._utilityScriptPromise) {
       const source = `new (${utilityScriptSource.source})()`;
       this._utilityScriptPromise = this._delegate.rawEvaluate(source).then(objectId => new JSHandle(this, 'object', objectId));
@@ -66,12 +67,16 @@ export class JSHandle<T = any> {
   readonly _objectId: ObjectId | undefined;
   readonly _value: any;
   private _objectType: string;
+  protected _preview: string;
 
   constructor(context: ExecutionContext, type: string, objectId?: ObjectId, value?: any) {
     this._context = context;
     this._objectId = objectId;
     this._value = value;
     this._objectType = type;
+    if (this._objectId)
+      this._value = 'JSHandle@' + this._objectType;
+    this._preview = 'JSHandle@' + String(this._objectId ? this._objectType : this._value);
   }
 
   async evaluate<R, Arg>(pageFunction: types.FuncOn<T, Arg, R>, arg: Arg): Promise<R>;
@@ -121,14 +126,8 @@ export class JSHandle<T = any> {
     await this._context._delegate.releaseHandle(this);
   }
 
-  _handleToString(includeType: boolean): string {
-    if (this._objectId)
-      return 'JSHandle@' + this._objectType;
-    return (includeType ? 'JSHandle:' : '') + this._value;
-  }
-
   toString(): string {
-    return this._handleToString(true);
+    return this._preview;
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/src/selectors.ts b/src/selectors.ts
index bcd8433e05..c7cce63f78 100644
--- a/src/selectors.ts
+++ b/src/selectors.ts
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ import { ParsedSelector, parseSelector } from './common/selectorParser';
 export class Selectors {
   readonly _builtinEngines: Set<string>;
   readonly _engines: Map<string, { source: string, contentScript: boolean }>;
-  _generation = 0;
 
   constructor() {
     // Note: keep in sync with SelectorEvaluator class.
@@ -51,7 +50,6 @@ export class Selectors {
     if (this._engines.has(name))
       throw new Error(`"${name}" selector engine has been already registered`);
     this._engines.set(name, { source, contentScript });
-    ++this._generation;
   }
 
   private _needsMainContext(parsed: ParsedSelector): boolean {
@@ -128,7 +126,7 @@ export class Selectors {
             if (!element)
               progress.log(`  selector did not resolve to any element`);
             else
-              progress.log(`  selector resolved to ${visible ? 'visible' : 'hidden'} ${injected.previewElement(element)}`);
+              progress.log(`  selector resolved to ${visible ? 'visible' : 'hidden'} ${injected.previewNode(element)}`);
           }
 
           switch (state) {
diff --git a/src/webkit/wkExecutionContext.ts b/src/webkit/wkExecutionContext.ts
index 1fa038abb3..10c6b018c4 100644
--- a/src/webkit/wkExecutionContext.ts
+++ b/src/webkit/wkExecutionContext.ts
@@ -81,17 +81,16 @@ export class WKExecutionContext implements js.ExecutionContextDelegate {
       if (!returnByValue)
         return utilityScript._context.createHandle(response.result);
       if (response.result.objectId)
-        return await this._returnObjectByValue(utilityScript._context, response.result.objectId);
+        return await this._returnObjectByValue(utilityScript, response.result.objectId);
       return parseEvaluationResultValue(response.result.value);
     } catch (error) {
       throw rewriteError(error);
     }
   }
 
-  private async _returnObjectByValue(context: js.ExecutionContext, objectId: Protocol.Runtime.RemoteObjectId): Promise<any> {
+  private async _returnObjectByValue(utilityScript: js.JSHandle<any>, objectId: Protocol.Runtime.RemoteObjectId): Promise<any> {
     // This is different from handleJSONValue in that it does not throw.
     try {
-      const utilityScript = await context.utilityScript();
       const serializeResponse = await this._session.send('Runtime.callFunctionOn', {
         functionDeclaration: 'object => object' + sourceMap.generateSourceUrl(),
         objectId: utilityScript._objectId!,
diff --git a/test/assets/dom.html b/test/assets/dom.html
index 775683cc5d..957b74e0cf 100644
--- a/test/assets/dom.html
+++ b/test/assets/dom.html
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 <div id="outer" name="value"><div id="inner">Text,
-more text</div></div>
+more text</div></div><input id="check" type=checkbox checked foo="bar&quot;">
diff --git a/test/elementhandle.spec.js b/test/elementhandle.spec.js
index 4cbc278182..2598a3e3ab 100644
--- a/test/elementhandle.spec.js
+++ b/test/elementhandle.spec.js
@@ -376,6 +376,18 @@ describe('ElementHandle.selectText', function() {
 
 
 describe('ElementHandle convenience API', function() {
+  it('should have a nice preview', async({page, server}) => {
+    await page.goto(`${server.PREFIX}/dom.html`);
+    const outer = await page.$('#outer');
+    const inner = await page.$('#inner');
+    const check = await page.$('#check');
+    const text = await inner.evaluateHandle(e => e.firstChild);
+    await page.evaluate(() => 1);  // Give them a chance to calculate the preview.
+    expect(String(outer)).toBe('JSHandle@<div id="outer" name="value">…</div>');
+    expect(String(inner)).toBe('JSHandle@<div id="inner">Text,↵more text</div>');
+    expect(String(text)).toBe('JSHandle@#text=Text,↵more text');
+    expect(String(check)).toBe('JSHandle@<input checked id="check" foo="bar"" type="checkbox"/>');
+  });
   it('getAttribute should work', async({page, server}) => {
     await page.goto(`${server.PREFIX}/dom.html`);
     const handle = await page.$('#outer');
diff --git a/test/jshandle.spec.js b/test/jshandle.spec.js
index 4c0e3a2aff..521438d4ad 100644
--- a/test/jshandle.spec.js
+++ b/test/jshandle.spec.js
@@ -236,9 +236,9 @@ describe('JSHandle.asElement', function() {
 describe('JSHandle.toString', function() {
   it('should work for primitives', async({page, server}) => {
     const numberHandle = await page.evaluateHandle(() => 2);
-    expect(numberHandle.toString()).toBe('JSHandle:2');
+    expect(numberHandle.toString()).toBe('JSHandle@2');
     const stringHandle = await page.evaluateHandle(() => 'a');
-    expect(stringHandle.toString()).toBe('JSHandle:a');
+    expect(stringHandle.toString()).toBe('JSHandle@a');
   });
   it('should work for complicated objects', async({page, server}) => {
     const aHandle = await page.evaluateHandle(() => window);
@@ -252,15 +252,15 @@ describe('JSHandle.toString', function() {
   });
   it('should work with different subtypes', async({page, server}) => {
     expect((await page.evaluateHandle('(function(){})')).toString()).toBe('JSHandle@function');
-    expect((await page.evaluateHandle('12')).toString()).toBe('JSHandle:12');
-    expect((await page.evaluateHandle('true')).toString()).toBe('JSHandle:true');
-    expect((await page.evaluateHandle('undefined')).toString()).toBe('JSHandle:undefined');
-    expect((await page.evaluateHandle('"foo"')).toString()).toBe('JSHandle:foo');
+    expect((await page.evaluateHandle('12')).toString()).toBe('JSHandle@12');
+    expect((await page.evaluateHandle('true')).toString()).toBe('JSHandle@true');
+    expect((await page.evaluateHandle('undefined')).toString()).toBe('JSHandle@undefined');
+    expect((await page.evaluateHandle('"foo"')).toString()).toBe('JSHandle@foo');
     expect((await page.evaluateHandle('Symbol()')).toString()).toBe('JSHandle@symbol');
     expect((await page.evaluateHandle('new Map()')).toString()).toBe('JSHandle@map');
     expect((await page.evaluateHandle('new Set()')).toString()).toBe('JSHandle@set');
     expect((await page.evaluateHandle('[]')).toString()).toBe('JSHandle@array');
-    expect((await page.evaluateHandle('null')).toString()).toBe('JSHandle:null');
+    expect((await page.evaluateHandle('null')).toString()).toBe('JSHandle@null');
     expect((await page.evaluateHandle('/foo/')).toString()).toBe('JSHandle@regexp');
     expect((await page.evaluateHandle('document.body')).toString()).toBe('JSHandle@node');
     expect((await page.evaluateHandle('new Date()')).toString()).toBe('JSHandle@date');
diff --git a/test/queryselector.spec.js b/test/queryselector.spec.js
index 4bce9060ec..f73dedddf2 100644
--- a/test/queryselector.spec.js
+++ b/test/queryselector.spec.js
@@ -789,10 +789,7 @@ describe('selectors.register', () => {
     // Can be chained to css.
     expect(await page.$eval('main=ignored >> css=section', e => e.nodeName)).toBe('SECTION');
   });
-  it('should update', async ({page}) => {
-    await page.setContent('<div><dummy id=d1></dummy></div><span><dummy id=d2></dummy></span>');
-    expect(await page.$eval('div', e => e.nodeName)).toBe('DIV');
-
+  it('should handle errors', async ({page}) => {
     let error = await page.$('neverregister=ignored').catch(e => e);
     expect(error.message).toBe('Unknown engine "neverregister" while parsing selector neverregister=ignored');
 
@@ -812,8 +809,6 @@ describe('selectors.register', () => {
     expect(error.message).toBe('Selector engine name may only contain [a-zA-Z0-9_] characters');
 
     await registerEngine('dummy', createDummySelector);
-    expect(await page.$eval('dummy=ignored', e => e.id)).toBe('d1');
-    expect(await page.$eval('css=span >> dummy=ignored', e => e.id)).toBe('d2');
 
     error = await playwright.selectors.register('dummy', createDummySelector).catch(e => e);
     expect(error.message).toBe('"dummy" selector engine has been already registered');