How can I match on an attribute that contains a certain string?

xpath
crazyrails picture crazyrails · Sep 7, 2009 · Viewed 380.4k times · Source

I am having a problem selecting nodes by attribute when the attributes contains more than one word. For example:

<div class="atag btag" />

This is my xpath expression:

//*[@class='atag']

The expression works with

<div class="atag" />

but not for the previous example. How can I select the <div>?

Answer

surupa123 picture surupa123 · Mar 27, 2011

Here's an example that finds div elements whose className contains atag:

//div[contains(@class, 'atag')]

Here's an example that finds div elements whose className contains atag and btag:

//div[contains(@class, 'atag') and contains(@class ,'btag')]

However, it will also find partial matches like class="catag bobtag".

If you don't want partial matches, see bobince's answer below.

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