diff --git a/lib/webrat/selenium/location_strategy_javascript/webratlink.js b/lib/webrat/selenium/location_strategy_javascript/webratlink.js
index ad71957..4578291 100644
--- a/lib/webrat/selenium/location_strategy_javascript/webratlink.js
+++ b/lib/webrat/selenium/location_strategy_javascript/webratlink.js
@@ -3,7 +3,14 @@ var candidateLinks = $A(links).select(function(candidateLink) {
   return PatternMatcher.matches(locator, getText(candidateLink));
 });
 if (candidateLinks.length == 0) {
-  return null;
+  var last_char_of_locator = locator.lastIndexOf('/');
+  var locator_id = locator.substring(11,last_char_of_locator);
+  var candidate_link_by_id = inDocument.getElementById(locator_id);
+  if (candidate_link_by_id == null) {
+    return null;
+  } else {
+    return candidate_link_by_id;
+  }
 }
 candidateLinks = candidateLinks.sortBy(function(s) { return s.length * -1; }); //reverse length sort
 return candidateLinks.first();