findElementByLinkText() unable to get links that are inside a <li> element

[alaindesilets]

JBrowserDriverExperiment.java.zip

It seems findElemenByLinkText() is sometimes unable to correctly parse the anchor text of links that are inside of

elements. For example:

<ul>
<li><a href="somurl">anchor text</a></li>
</ul>

The attached java file illustrates this issue. It provides several experiments, each experiment consisting of:

• downloading a page
• locating the element with a particular anchor text
• clicking on that element

Two of the experiment involve an element that is inside of a <li>. The first one works fine, but in the second experiment, the anchor text of the element appears as an empty string.