How can I select the drop down date section using selenium

Question

I have just started working on selenium and know only a few things. I was wondering as how can I select an element from the drop down list. I am trying things on facebook's website. The login page has a signup section and there is a dropdown option to fill date of birth how to test that and fill a date?

Answer 1

First thing that you need to do is find the ID for the dropdown box you are going to test.

There is a select class used in selenium. 

Here is the eg I used to create the above said scenario:

import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select;

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","C:\\Yourpath\\chromedriver.exe");
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.get("https://www.facebook.com");
Select year = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("date")));
year.selectByVisibleText("27");
Select year = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("month")));
year.selectByVisibleText("Aug");
Select year = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("year")));
year.selectByVisibleText("2000");
Thread.sleep(5000);

This is not the legit way but agin this also worked so I am just giving this as an option to do things in a simpler way

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","C:\\Yourpath\\chromedriver.exe");
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.get("https://www.facebook.com");
driver.findElement(By.id("day")).sendKeys("6");
driver.findElement(By.id("month")).sendKeys("Nov");
driver.findElement(By.id("year")).sendKeys("2000");
Thread.wait(5000);

These were the two ways I know to do this.