Xpath, div with multiple classes

Question

I feel really stupid: I just read this question How to get html elements with multiple css classes and the answer was very clear and straightforward but when I try to apply it on this HTML

<div class="header group">

I am completely unable to make it work.

Here are some of the variations I have tried

//*[contains (@class, ’header’) and contains (@class, ‘group’)]
//div[contains (@class, ’header’) and contains (@class, ‘group’)]
//div[contains (@class, ’header’)]

What am I missing here? Should be straightforward, shouldn't it?

Testing in Chrome Canary.

Updates

The invalid typographical apostrophes above happened when I copy-pasted into this form. I was using ' in the actual console.
I was playing around on an archived version of the page at the Wayback Machine (WM) and nothing worked. However, when trying on the live version, everything worked as expected (the problem with the live version was that the final element I was "aiming" at currently is missing but will return later on, therefore I used WM). Any ideas why // seems broken on WM? Even if WM adds a few levels of divs, // should be transparent about that, shouldn't it?

"Unable to make it work" is not a technical description of the problem. https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask — Rob, Jul 22 '19 at 12:05
Your string quotation is wrong `//div[contains(@class, 'header') and contains(@class, 'group')]` — KunduK, Jul 22 '19 at 12:19
@KunduK Something happened when I copy-pasted it, I was using single 'apostrophes' in the inspector. — d-b, Jul 22 '19 at 14:33

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 22 '19 at 12:16

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Just use this xpath.

//div[@class='header group']

answered Jul 22 '19 at 12:16

KunduK

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I tried exactly that first and it didn't work but now it does :-( – d-b Jul 22 '19 at 14:34

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 21 '19 at 07:45

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you should use something like this

<xpath expr="//div[hasclass('header') and hasclass('group')]" position="replace">
    <t>
        xxxxxx
    </t>
</xpath>

answered Aug 21 '19 at 07:45

Mohammad Reza

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Xpath, div with multiple classes

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