XPath query to select all href attributes of tag, which 'class' attribute equals specified string

Question

I don\'t know why following query doesn\'t work:

//a/@href[@class=\'specified_string\']

Answer 1

Try it the other way round:

//a[@class='specified_string']/@href

After all, class is an attribute of the <a> element, not an attribute of the href attribute.

Answer 2

An attribute cannot have attributes. Only elements can have attributes.

The original XPath expression:

//a/@href[@class='specified_string'] 

selects any href attribute of any a element, such that the href attribute has an attribute class whose value is 'specified_string'.

What you want is:

//a[@class='specified_string']/@href 

that is: the href attribute of any a element that has class atribute with value 'specified_string'.

Answer 3

You basically say that you are looking for an attribute named href, whose attribute (this is the error) class should be equal to specified_string.

But you need to find the attribute href of an element a, whose attribute class is specified_string.

(ndim's answer overlapped mine)

Answer 4

There is not class attribute present in anchor tag I have href only. It is identified using //*[@href='value'] but //*a[@href='value'] is not working