Best strategy to locate elements on Google Translate by Selenium?

Question

Formerly the class names were meaningful kinda .tlid-open-source-language-list,

but now there are only tons of random crap like VfPpkd-Bz112c-LgbsSe VfPpkd-Bz112c-LgbsSe-OWXEXe-e5LLRc-SxQuSe yHy1rc eT1oJ qiN4Vb KY3GZb szLmtb HotEze.

So, does it force now to forget about CSS-selectors and just use XPath everywhere?

Answer 1

Classnames like...

VfPpkd-Bz112c-LgbsSe VfPpkd-Bz112c-LgbsSe-OWXEXe-e5LLRc-SxQuSe yHy1rc eT1oJ qiN4Vb KY3GZb szLmtb HotEze

...indicates that these classnames are generated runtime i.e. dynamically generated. They are bound to change each time you access the application afresh.

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Solution

In these cases you have to use dynamic and/or relative Locator Strategies leaving out the Classnames.