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

A CSS selector approach could definitely work here. Try:

driver.findElement(By.CssSelector("a.item")).Click();

This will not work if there are other anchors before this one of the class item. You can better specify the exact element if you do something like "#my_table > a.item" where my_table is the id of a table that the anchor is a child of.