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Asked: 2026-06-17T07:15:01+00:00

I used this Xpath expression //span[@class=’Big’] and got all elements in that page that

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I used this Xpath expression "//span[@class='Big']" and got all elements in that page that are under <span> tag and class='Big'.

My question is what if I want just the first occurrence on the page, not all occurrences, what would be the correct Xpath expression?

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Narin

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  1. Editorial Team

    The correct answer (note the brackets):

    (//span[@class='Big'])[1]

    The following expression is wrong in the general case:

    //span[@class='Big'][1]

    because it selects every span element in the document, that satisfies the condition in the first predicate, and that is the first such child of its parent — there can be many such elements in an XML document and all of them will be selected.

    For more detailed explanation see: https://stackoverflow.com/a/5818966/36305

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