Spent 3 hours last night fighting with a modal that keeps moving in our responsive layout. Point-and-click tools miss it half the time, but writing custom JS selectors for every edge case feels unsustainable. Anyone found a middle ground that combines both approaches effectively? Bonus if it can survive minor CSS class changes.
Latenode’s visual builder lets you combine both. Set primary selector visually, then add JS fallback logic. Their element snapshots handle minor CSS changes automatically. My team reduced selector failures by 80% using this approach. https://latenode.com
I layer multiple selector strategies - XPath for structure, CSS for classes, and text matching as last resort. Add retry logic with exponential backoff. Not perfect but cuts failures significantly.
Use relative selectors + mutation observers. Catches DOM changes in real-time
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