[Answers](https://scrapfly.io/blog) / [xpath](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/xpath) / [How to select elements by ID in XPath?](https://scrapfly.io/blog/answers/how-to-select-elements-by-id-in-xpath) # How to select elements by ID in XPath? by [Bernardas Alisauskas](https://scrapfly.io/blog/author/bernardas) Apr 19, 2023 1 min read [\#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-id-in-xpath "Share on LinkedIn") To select elements by element ID using XPath we can match the `@id` attribute with the `=` operator or the `contains()` function. For example, to select `` element we could use `//a[@id="home"]` or `//a[contains(@id, "home")]` selectors as seen in these interactive examples: <html> <a id="ignore"></a> <a id="home">website</a> <a id="ignore2">website 2</a> </html> For dynamic IDs we can use `contains()` to match elements by partial ID: <html> <a id="ignore"></a> <a id="home-231">website</a> <a id="ignore2">website 2</a> </html> Note that by CSS design there should only be one element of a given ID on the page which makes selecting elements by ID a very fast and reliable method. Table of Contents Join the Newsletter Get monthly web scraping insights 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-id-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-id-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-id-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-id-in-xpath) [ Claude ](https://claude.ai/new?q=Summarize%20this%20page%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fscrapfly.io%2Fblog%2Fanswers%2Fhow-to-select-elements-by-id-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) [ headless-browser puppeteer ### How to find elements by XPath in Puppeteer? To find elements by XPath using Puppeteer the "$x()" method can be used which will execute XPath selection on the curren... ](https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/how-to-find-elements-by-xpath-in-puppeteer) ## Related Questions - [ Q How to select elements by class in XPath? ](https://scrapfly.io/blog/answers/how-to-select-elements-by-class-in-xpath) - [ Q How to select elements by attribute value in XPath? ](https://scrapfly.io/blog/answers/how-to-select-elements-by-attribute-value) - [ Q How to select elements of a specific position in XPath? ](https://scrapfly.io/blog/answers/how-to-select-elements-of-specific-position-in-xpath) - [ Q How to find HTML elements by attribute using BeautifulSoup? ](https://scrapfly.io/blog/answers/how-to-find-html-elements-by-attribute-with-beautifulsoup) Scale your web scraping effortlessly, **1,000 free credits** [Start Free](https://scrapfly.io/register)