Selenium RC link locator cannot find link inside table - testing

Question

I has a page as follow:
<table>
<tr>
<th>Company Name</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> What Ever Company</td>
</tr>
</table>
The company name is placed arbitrary in the table, so I can only use the link's text to locate the link:
selenium.click("link='What Ever Company'");
However, it says: ERROR:Element link='What Ever Company' not found.
What is the problem here? Is there any other way to click on the link?
Many thanks.
EDIT
Seem that the problem is I have several links with the same text (my bad). After making the link's text unique, I use selenium.click("//a[contains(text(),'Test Campaign 1756237989')]") and it works.

Answer 1

Could this be because you're forgetting the space at the start of the link?
selenium.click("link=' What Ever Company'");
^
Another possible way of clicking the link, is to use an XPath expression:
selenium.click("//a[contains(.,'What Ever Company')]");
This will match all links with 'What Ever Company' in it.
If you want it more exact:
selenium.click("//a[.=' What Ever Company']");
This will only match if the anchor equals ' What Ever Company'.
Another option is to make the search more specific (i.e. tell the locator this link is always inside a <td> with an <a> inside):
selenium.click("//td[a]/a[contains(.,'What Ever Company')]");
The //td[a] looks for all <td> elements with <a> inside. (Differs from //td/a in that if you look for elements with //td[a][2] you get the second <a> which is inside a <td>, while //td/a[2] on the other hand gets the second <a> of the first <td>.)
EDIT: I thought using . as a reference to text() in the XPath expressions should work, but if it doesn't, try using text() instead.

Answer 2

Try these XPaths:
"//table/tr[2]/td/a"
or
"//a[contains(text(), 'What Ever Company')]"
Should work.