How to Select Date from DatePicker/Calendar in Selenium Webdriver

How to Handle Calendar in Selenium

For DateTime selection, HTML5 has a new control shown below.

Above page can be accessed here: https://demo.guru99.com/test/

If we see the DOM of the DateTime Picker control, there will be only one input box for both date and time.

So to handle this type of control first we will fill date without separating with delimiter, i.e. if date is 09/25/2013, then we will pass 09252013 to the input box. Once done, we will shift focus from date to time by pressing ‘tab’ & fill time.

If we need to fill 02:45 PM , we will pass it a ‘0245PM’ to the same input box.

The code for datepicker looks like this –

import java.util.List;

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.Keys;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class DateTimePicker {

    @Test

    public void dateTimePicker(){

        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "chromedriver.exe");

        WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

        driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

        driver.get("https://demo.guru99.com/test/");

        //Find the date time picker control

        WebElement dateBox = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//form//input[@name='bdaytime']"));

        //Fill date as mm/dd/yyyy as 09/25/2013

        dateBox.sendKeys("09252013");

        //Press tab to shift focus to time field

        dateBox.sendKeys(Keys.TAB);

        //Fill time as 02:45 PM

        dateBox.sendKeys("0245PM");

    }

    }

Output will be like-

Lets look at another Calendar example. We will use Telerik DateTimePicker control. Can be accessed here

Here if we need to change the month, we have to click on the middle of the calendar header.

Similarly if we need to change the year then we can do it by clicking next or previous links on the datepicker.

And finally for changing the time we can select correct time from the dropdown(Note: Here time is selected in a gap of 30 min. i.e., 12:00, 12:30 , 1:00, 1:30 etc.).

A complete example looks like-

import java.util.Calendar;

import java.util.List;

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class DatePicker {

    @Test

    public void testDAtePicker() throws Exception{

        //DAte and Time to be set in textbox

        String dateTime ="12/07/2014 2:00 PM";

        WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

        driver.manage().window().maximize();
        
        driver.get("https://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/datetimepicker/index");
        
        driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
        
        //button to open calendar

        WebElement selectDate = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[@aria-controls='datetimepicker_dateview']"));
        
    selectDate.click();

    //button to move next in calendar

    WebElement nextLink = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='datetimepicker_dateview']//div[@class='k-header']//a[contains(@class,'k-nav-next')]"));

    //button to click in center of calendar header

    WebElement midLink = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='datetimepicker_dateview']//div[@class='k-header']//a[contains(@class,'k-nav-fast')]"));

    //button to move previous month in calendar

    WebElement previousLink = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='datetimepicker_dateview']//div[@class='k-header']//a[contains(@class,'k-nav-prev')]")); 

        //Split the date time to get only the date part

        String date_dd_MM_yyyy[] = (dateTime.split(" ")[0]).split("/");

        //get the year difference between current year and year to set in calander

        int yearDiff = Integer.parseInt(date_dd_MM_yyyy[2])- Calendar.getInstance().get(Calendar.YEAR);

        midLink.click();

        if(yearDiff!=0){

            //if you have to move next year

            if(yearDiff>0){

                for(int i=0;i< yearDiff;i++){

                    System.out.println("Year Diff->"+i);

                    nextLink.click();

                }

            }

            //if you have to move previous year

            else if(yearDiff<0){

                for(int i=0;i< (yearDiff*(-1));i++){

                    System.out.println("Year Diff->"+i);

                    previousLink.click();

                }

            }

        }
        
        Thread.sleep(1000);

        //Get all months from calendar to select correct one

        List<WebElement> list_AllMonthToBook = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//div[@id='datetimepicker_dateview']//table//tbody//td[not(contains(@class,'k-other-month'))]"));
        
        list_AllMonthToBook.get(Integer.parseInt(date_dd_MM_yyyy[1])-1).click();
        
        Thread.sleep(1000);

        //get all dates from calendar to select correct one

        List<WebElement> list_AllDateToBook = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//div[@id='datetimepicker_dateview']//table//tbody//td[not(contains(@class,'k-other-month'))]"));
        
        list_AllDateToBook.get(Integer.parseInt(date_dd_MM_yyyy[0])-1).click();
        
        ///FOR TIME

        WebElement selectTime = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[@aria-controls='datetimepicker_timeview']"));

        //click time picker button

        selectTime.click();

        //get list of times

        List<WebElement> allTime = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//div[@data-role='popup'][contains(@style,'display: block')]//ul//li[@role='option']"));
      
        dateTime = dateTime.split(" ")[1]+" "+dateTime.split(" ")[2];

     //select correct time

        for (WebElement webElement : allTime) {

            if(webElement.getText().equalsIgnoreCase(dateTime))

            {

                webElement.click();

            }

        }

    }

}

Output will be like