Automate Calendar Using Selenium WebDriver for Testing

We can automate a calendar using Selenium webdriver. It may be a bit difficult to automate tests on a calendar since the selection of day, month, and year can be different in web UI from one calendar to another.

A calendar can be in the form of a dropdown selection or with backward and forward buttons to select up and down in dates or with any other features. Let us see an example of selection of the 03/02/2021(2nd March, 2021) date in the below calendar −

In the above example, the calendar is within a table. A table is represented by <table> tag and its rows are represented by the <tr> tag and columns by <td> tag.

To pick a date, we have to access all the elements within the td tag with the help of the findElements method.

The findElements method returns a list of elements. We shall iterate over this list(with a loop) and search a particular date. Once we get the expected date, we would click on it and then break out of the loop.

Example

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import java.util.List;
public class CalendarDt{
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver",
         "C:\Users\ghs6kor\Desktop\Java\geckodriver.exe");
      WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
      //implicit wait
      driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
      //URL launch
      driver.get("https://jqueryui.com/datepicker/#date%E2%88%92range");
      //identify and switch to frame
      WebElement r = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//iframe[@class='demo-frame']"));
      driver.switchTo().frame(r);
      //identify element
      WebElement e = driver.findElement(By.id("datepicker"));
      e.click();
      //identify elements with td tag in list
      List<WebElement> d =driver.findElements(By.xpath("//table/tbody/tr/td"));
      //iterate list
      for (int i = 0; i<d.size(); i++) {
         //check expected data
         String s = d.get(i).getText();
         if (s.equals("2")) {
            d.get(i).click();
            break;
         }
      }
      //get data selected
      String m = e.getAttribute("value");
      System.out.print("Date selected in calendar is: "+ m);
      //close browser
      driver.quit();
   }
}

Output