Handling calendar popup using Selenium WebDriver

Question

I was selecting a date from a calendar popup like 14/08/2017 from calendar using Selenium WebDrive? How to select it? Any suggestions

Below is the code I tried:

package com.Automation;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
public class DemoDate {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
        driver.get("http://www.yatra.com/");
        driver.findElement(By.id("//div[2]/ul[3]/li[1]/i")).click();
        driver.findElement(By.id("a_2015_4_25")).click();
    }
}

Comments

Use Select class

Answer 1

You are selecting wrongly your elements in your code, as you are selecting an element by id passing an xpath to the function, it should be like this:

//....

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[2]/ul[3]/li[1]/i")).click();

driver.findElement(By.id(' a_2017_8_14'')).click();

//...

You can use ID for clicking it:

driver.findElement(By.id('a_2017_8_14')).click(); //use this format a_yyyy_m_d

you can also go back or forward by clicking the calendar arrows:

driver.findElement(By.className('js_btnNext')).click() // click the "next" arrow

driver.findElement(By.className('js_btnPrev')).click() // click the "prev" arrow

note that calendar must be visible when you click the day.