Finding Edit link in the driver.PageSource and Click using Selenium Webdriver (C#)

Question

I am trying to find the text and if the text is found then click the Edit link which is in the td tag.... but when you look at the page source I dont see how to determine any recommendation or suggestions to achieve?

for an example:

in my page html source (see below) in the td i have text called Title1 once I found the text then I want to find a way to click on the Edit link (which is a hyperlink)

here is what i have done so far //here is my code

IWebDriver driver = new OpenQA.Selenium.IE.InternetExplorerDriver();
string url ="http://site.com";
driver.Navigate().GoToUrl(url);
string pagesource = driver.PageSource;

//html page source:

     


    
    Employee 
    
        
        
        
        
        
        
            
                
                    
                        
                            
                                Employee Information
                            
                                 
                                    Language:
                                    
                                
                                    
                                        
                                            
                                                
                                                    
                                                        
                                                        
                                                    
                                                    
                                                        
                                                            Page 1 of 34
                                                        
                                                    
                                                    
                                                        
                                                        
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                    Page Size
                                                    
                                                
                                                
                                                    10 Items Found
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
                                                 
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                                    Phone
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                                    Title
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                                    SubTitle
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                                    Names
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                                    Enames
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                                    Active
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                                     DateTime
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
                                                
                                                    Edit
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                Title1
                                            
                                            
                                                 
                                            
                                            
                                                 
                                            
                                            
                                                 
                                            
                                            
                                                 
                                            
                                            
                                                8/23/2011 
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
                                                
                                                    Edit
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                1
                                            
                                            
                                                1
                                            
                                            
                                                Employee
                                            
                                            
                                                 
                                            
                                            
                                                 
                                            
                                            
                                                7/31/2014
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
                                                
                                                    Edit
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                111
                                            
                                            
                                                111
                                            
                                            
                                                Employer
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                 
                                            
                                            
                                                7/31/2013
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
                                                
                                                    Edit
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                123
                                            
                                            
                                                 
                                            
                                            
                                                 
                                            
                                            
                                                 
                                            
                                            
                                                 
                                            
                                            
                                                8/23/2011
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
                                                
                                                    Edit
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                2
                                            
                                            
                                                2
                                            
                                            
                                                Employer
                                            
                                            
                                                 
                                            
                                            
                                                 
                                            
                                            
                                                7/31/2012
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
                                                
                                                    Edit
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                3
                                            
                                            
                                                3
                                            
                                            
                                                Employer 
                                            
                                            
                                                 
                                            
                                            
                                                 
                                            
                                            
                                                7/31/2012
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
                                                
                                                    Edit
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                a
                                            
                                            
                                                a
                                            
                                            
                                                 
                                            
                                            
                                                 
                                            
                                            
                                                 
                                            
                                            
                                                7/20/2012
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
                                                
                                                    Edit
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                Day
                                            
                                            
                                                 
                                            
                                            
                                                Customer
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                 
                                            
                                            
                                                3/2/2013
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
                                                
                                                    Edit
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                a1
                                            
                                            
                                                a1
                                            
                                            
                                                 
                                            
                                            
                                                 
                                            
                                            
                                                 
                                            
                                            
                                                7/24/20/14
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
                                                
                                                    Edit
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                A1
                                            
                                            
                                                A1
                                            
                                            
                                                 
                                            
                                            
                                                 
                                            
                                            
                                                 
                                            
                                            
                                                7/30/2012

JimEvans · Accepted Answer

Why wouldn't the following work?

// Assumes "driver" is a valid object implementing IWebDriver
IWebElement table = driver.FindElement(By.ClassName("gv"));
IWebElement element = table.FindElement(By.XPath(".//td[contains(., 'Title1')]/..//a"));

In essence, this says, "Starting at the table with the class name "gv", find the element whose text contains 'Title1', navigate to it's parent (which should be the element), then find the first descendent element."

Finding Edit link in the driver.PageSource and Click using Selenium Webdriver (C#)

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