selenium click on anchor tag inside table td

Question

i have my html code looks like this:

Answer 1

Small error in your code, you're missing '' around the text "+linktext+":

driver.findElement(By.xpath("/table[contains(@class,'results ib-list')]/tbody/tr/td[@class = 'name']/a[contains(text(),'"+linktext+"')]")).click();

NoSuchElementException usually means the element is in a frame, or slow to load. Selenium only interacts with elements in the current frame. Any element within a child frame cannot be interacted with until you switch into that frame. You can switch by using switchTo().frame():

driver.switchTo().frame(ARG);

The arguments for frame() are

• number from 0
• id of the frame
• the webelement rerference of the frame

When done in the iframe, use the following to exit back to the top of the document:

driver.switchTo().defaultContent();