diff --git a/docs/topics/selectors.rst b/docs/topics/selectors.rst
index 688c2b715..273cae0f8 100644
--- a/docs/topics/selectors.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/selectors.rst
@@ -146,12 +146,12 @@ If you want to extract only first matched element, you can call the selector ``.
 
 It returns ``None`` if no element was found:
 
-    >>> response.xpath('//div/[id="not-exists"]/text()').extract_first() is None
+    >>> response.xpath('//div[@id="not-exists"]/text()').extract_first() is None
     True
 
 A default return value can be provided as an argument, to be used instead of ``None``:
 
-    >>> sel.xpath('//div/[id="not-exists"]/text()').extract_first(default='not-found')
+    >>> sel.xpath('//div[@id="not-exists"]/text()').extract_first(default='not-found')
     'not-found'
 
 Notice that CSS selectors can select text or attribute nodes using CSS3