[Answers](https://scrapfly.io/blog) / [data-parsing](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/data-parsing) / [How to select elements by class in XPath?](https://scrapfly.io/blog/answers/how-to-select-elements-by-class-in-xpath) # How to select elements by class in XPath? by [Bernardas Alisauskas](https://scrapfly.io/blog/author/bernardas) Oct 28, 2022 1 min read [\#data-parsing](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/data-parsing) [\#xpath](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/xpath) [ ](https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fscrapfly.io%2Fblog%2Fanswers%2Fhow-to-select-elements-by-class-in-xpath "Share on LinkedIn") To select elements by class using XPath we can match the `@class` attribute using `contains()` function or the `=` operator. For example, to select `` we could use `//a[@class="link"]` or `//a[contains(@class, "link")]` selectors. See this interactive example: <html> <a class="ignore"></a> <a class="link">website</a> <a class="blue link underline">website 2</a> </html> Note that using `contains()` might match partial matches. For example, `disabled-link` would be matched by our `contains(@class, "link")` selector. To match by a single class we can use `contains(concat(" ", normalize-space(@class), " "), " match ")` pattern: <html> <a class="ignore"></a> <a class="link">website</a> <a class="blue link underline">website 2</a> <a class="disabled-link underline">ignore</a> </html> Tip: If you're using Python's `parsel` package then there's an equivalent shortcut `has-class()`. For example, `//a[has-class("link")]` Scale Your Web Scraping Anti-bot bypass, browser rendering, and rotating proxies, all in one API. Start with 1,000 free credits. No credit card required 1,000 free API credits Anti-bot bypass included [Start Free](https://scrapfly.io/register) [View Docs](https://scrapfly.io/docs/onboarding) Not ready? Get our newsletter instead. ## Explore this Article with AI [ ChatGPT ](https://chat.openai.com/?q=Summarize%20this%20page%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fscrapfly.io%2Fblog%2Fanswers%2Fhow-to-select-elements-by-class-in-xpath) [ Gemini ](https://www.google.com/search?udm=50&aep=11&q=Summarize%20this%20page%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fscrapfly.io%2Fblog%2Fanswers%2Fhow-to-select-elements-by-class-in-xpath) [ Grok ](https://x.com/i/grok?text=Summarize%20this%20page%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fscrapfly.io%2Fblog%2Fanswers%2Fhow-to-select-elements-by-class-in-xpath) [ Perplexity ](https://www.perplexity.ai/search/new?q=Summarize%20this%20page%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fscrapfly.io%2Fblog%2Fanswers%2Fhow-to-select-elements-by-class-in-xpath) [ Claude ](https://claude.ai/new?q=Summarize%20this%20page%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fscrapfly.io%2Fblog%2Fanswers%2Fhow-to-select-elements-by-class-in-xpath) ## Related Articles [ data-parsing xpath ### Ultimate XPath Cheatsheet for HTML Parsing in Web Scraping Ultimate companion for HTML parsing using XPath selectors. This cheatsheet contains all syntax explanations with interac... ](https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/xpath-cheatsheet) [ python data-parsing ### Parsing HTML with Xpath Introduction to xpath in the context of web-scraping. How to extract data from HTML documents using xpath, best practice... ](https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/parsing-html-with-xpath) [ data-parsing css-selectors ### Ultimate CSS Selector Cheatsheet for Web Scraping and HTML Parsing CSS selectors is a powerful HTML querying protocol which is used by browsers to determine what HTML elements to style. I... ](https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/css-selector-cheatsheet) ## Related Questions - [ Q How to find HTML elements by class? ](https://scrapfly.io/blog/answers/how-to-find-html-elements-by-class) - [ Q How to select elements by class using CSS selectors? ](https://scrapfly.io/blog/answers/how-to-select-elements-by-class-css-selectors) - [ Q How to get the name of an HTML element in XPath? ](https://scrapfly.io/blog/answers/how-to-get-name-of-selected-element-in-xpath) - [ Q How to select elements by attribute value in XPath? ](https://scrapfly.io/blog/answers/how-to-select-elements-by-attribute-value) Extract structured data with AI, **1,000 free credits** [Start Free](https://scrapfly.io/register)