selenium - How to find a certain link under a tr that is underneath several identical trs -

another problem getting particular portion of html click link. need click link above classify item #, ifw #qa gm 04012014 1424-1, supplier 1

the part of td know "qa gm 04012014 1424". can table doing a:

//*[@id='opentaskstable']/tbody

what i'm left unknown number of td's same id. i'm not sure how find proper 1 point.

code:

<table id="opentaskstable" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1">     <thead>         <tbody>             <tr class="evenrow tablecontroldatarow twtabletr">                 <td>                     <a href="../teamworks/process.lsw?zworkflowstate=1&ztaskid=t453156" target="_blank">run task</a>                 </td>                 <td>classify item #, ifw #qa gm 04012014 0911-1, supplier one</td>                 <td>apr 24, 2014</td>             </tr>             <tr class="oddrow tablecontroldatarow twtabletr">                 <td>                     <a href="../teamworks/process.lsw?zworkflowstate=1&ztaskid=t453157" target="_blank">run task</a>                 </td>                 <td>classify item #, ifw #qa gm 04012014 1012-1, supplier one</td>                 <td>apr 24, 2014</td>             </tr>             <tr class="evenrow tablecontroldatarow twtabletr">                 <td>                     <a href="../teamworks/process.lsw?zworkflowstate=1&ztaskid=t453158" target="_blank">run task</a>                 </td>                 <td>classify item #, ifw #qa gm 04012014 1414-1, supplier one</td>             <td>apr 24, 2014</td>             </tr>             <tr class="oddrow tablecontroldatarow twtabletr">                 <td>                 <a href="../teamworks/process.lsw?zworkflowstate=1&ztaskid=t453159" target="_blank">run task</a>             </td>                 <td>classify item #, ifw #qa gm 04012014 1420-1, supplier one</td>                 <td>apr 24, 2014</td>             </tr>             <tr class="evenrow tablecontroldatarow twtabletr">                 <td>                 <a href="../teamworks/process.lsw?zworkflowstate=1&ztaskid=t453160" target="_blank">run task</a>                 </td>                 <td>classify item #, ifw #qa gm 04012014 1422-1, supplier one</td>             <td>apr 24, 2014</td>             </tr>             <tr class="oddrow tablecontroldatarow twtabletr">                 <td>                     <a href="../teamworks/process.lsw?zworkflowstate=1&ztaskid=t453161" target="_blank">run task</a>                 </td>                 <td>classify item #, ifw #qa gm 04012014 1424-1, supplier one</td>                 <td>apr 24, 2014</td>             </tr> 

thanks! greg

the following xpath should work you:

//td[contains(text(),'qa gm 04012014 1424')]/..//a 

it find <a> in same <tr> <td> mentioned.