How to Click on a Text in Selenium Webdriver 2.x

Question

I am not able to click on the below HTML values through selenium webdriver click command through Java.

Here's my HTML...I have to click on PAAcctAcctRels, PAAcctActivityData, etc. as in the HTML.

I tried with LinkText (driver.findElement(By.linkText("PAAcctAcctRels")).click();) and xpath (driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//[@id='primaryNavLevel2Z6_G868H4S0K881F0AAEO37LG28N0']/div[1]/a")).click();)

<div id="primaryNavLevel2Z6_0G5A11K0KGF200AIUB98T20G52" class="dropdown_1columns">
  <div class="col_1">
    <a class="" href="?uri=nm:oid:Z6_0G5A11K0KGF200AIUB98T20G53">
      <strong>
        <span lang="en" dir="ltr">
          PAAcctAcctRels
          <span class="wpthemeAccess"> currently selected</span>
        </span>
      </strong>
    </a>
  </div>
  <div class="col_1">
    <a class="" href="?uri=nm:oid:Z6_0G5A11K0KGF200AIUB98T20GD4">
      <span lang="en" dir="ltr">PAAcctActivityData</span>
    </a>
  </div>
  <div class="col_1">
    <a class="" href="?uri=nm:oid:Z6_0G5A11K0KGF200AIUB98T20GT1">
      <span lang="en" dir="ltr">PAAcctAddrEmail</span>
    </a>
  </div>

Is there any other way to do this..please let me know.

Answer 1

1- For Clicking on text 'PAAcctActivityData', you can use the below code:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[.='PAAcctActivityData']")).click();

2- For Clicking on text 'PAAcctAddrEmail', you can use the below code:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[.='PAAcctAddrEmail']")).click();

NOTE:- The above xpaths will locate thespan elements with exact innerHTML/text as 'PAAcctActivityData' or 'PAAcctAddrEmail', respectively.