Java – selenium webdriver cannot find element through link text

I'm trying to select an element that contains an anchor, but the text is buried in a paragraph within a Div This is the HTML I'm using:

<a class="item" ng-href="#/catalog/90d9650a36988e5d0136988f03ab000f/category/DATABASE_SERVERS/service/90cefc7a42b3d4df0142b52466810026" href="#/catalog/90d9650a36988e5d0136988f03ab000f/category/DATABASE_SERVERS/service/90cefc7a42b3d4df0142b52466810026">
<div class="col-lg-2 col-sm-3 col-xs-4 item-list-image">
<img ng-src="csa/images/library/Service_Design.png" src="csa/images/library/Service_Design.png">
</div>
<div class="col-lg-8 col-sm-9 col-xs-8">
<div class="col-xs-12">
    <p>
    <strong class="ng-binding">Smoke Sequential</strong>
    </p>

The code I used to try to block it is for "smoke sequential" text:

driver.findElement(By.linkText(service)).click();

The variable "service" holds the position of "smoke sequential" When I run it, I get the following error:

org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: Unable to locate element: {"method":"link text","selector":"Smoke Sequential"}

Any help would be appreciated

Solution

The problem may be in the rest of the HTML that you did not publish

With this example (I just closed the open tab):

<a class="item" ng-href="#/catalog/90d9650a36988e5d0136988f03ab000f/category/DATABASE_SERVERS/service/90cefc7a42b3d4df0142b52466810026" href="#/catalog/90d9650a36988e5d0136988f03ab000f/category/DATABASE_SERVERS/service/90cefc7a42b3d4df0142b52466810026">
<div class="col-lg-2 col-sm-3 col-xs-4 item-list-image">
<img ng-src="csa/images/library/Service_Design.png" src="csa/images/library/Service_Design.png">
</div>
<div class="col-lg-8 col-sm-9 col-xs-8">
<div class="col-xs-12">
    <p>
    <strong class="ng-binding">Smoke Sequential</strong>
    </p>
    </div>
</div>
</a>

The elements I can find are not troublesome:

driver.findElement(By.linkText("Smoke Sequential")).click();

If there is more text in the element, you can try to find it through some linked text:

driver.findElement(By.partialLinkText("Sequential")).click();