Selenium RC: How to click link appears in grid??

Question

I'm using Selenium RC and created all scripts in java (Using Junit test case)

I want to click one grid column having "Edit" link. My code is look like,

selenium.click("//table[@id='ctl00_POMSContentPlaceHolder_gvBillingCompany']//tr["+gRow+"]//td["+gCol+"]");

gRow and gCol are defined as integers and their values vary as moving to next row/column.

Please let me know if anything needs to be done in this.

Answer 1

Some notes:

• You probably want to click on the link (<a>), not the cell.
• Children selectors need a single slash: //parent/child.
• I'm pretty sure you need tbody there - it is added implicidly by browsers:
  //table/tbody/tr[2]/td[3]/a[1]
• You may have better luck with a css selector:
  css=table tr:nth-child(2) td:nth-child(3) a

Answer 2

Try the following:

selenium.click("xpath=id('ctl00_POMSContentPlaceHolder_gvBillingCompany')/descendant::tr[" +gRow+ "]/descendant::td["+gCol+"]");

The following is from http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#path-abbrev

In XPath, // is shorthand for /descendant-or-self::node()/ but the location path //para[1] does not mean the same as the location path /descendant::para[1]. The latter selects the first descendant para element; the former selects all descendant para elements that are the first para children of their parents.