Selenium WebDriver can't find element by link text

Question

I\'m trying to select an element that includes an anchor, but the text is buried in a paragraph inside of a div. Here\'s the HTML I\'m working with:

Answer 1

The problem might be in the rest of the html, the part that you didn't post.

With this example (I just closed the open tags):

    

    Smoke Sequential
    
    

I was able to find the element without trouble with:

driver.findElement(By.linkText("Smoke Sequential")).click();

If there is more text inside the element, you could try a find by partial link text:

driver.findElement(By.partialLinkText("Sequential")).click();