Locate element with selenium Xpath for date picker drop-down menu in Python?

Question

I wanted to click on the date in the dropdown datepicker. Bus the error occurs Unable to Locate Element. I tried :

monyear = driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[7]/div[1]/table/tbody/tr[5]/td[1]').click()

and

element=WebDriverWait(driver,30).until(ec.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,"/html/body/div[7]/div[1]/table/tbody/tr[5]/td[1]")))

driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", element)

But none of them worked for me. Please suggest the possible solutions for it. Here is the HTML code and image of the dopbox.

<div class="datepicker dropdown-menu" style="display: block; top: 311.969px; left: 627.406px;">
 <div class="datepicker-days" style="display: block;">
  <table class=" table-condensed">
   <thead>
    <tr>
     <th class="prev">‹</th>
     <th colspan="5" class="switch">August 2020</th>
     <th class="next">›</th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
     <th class="dow">Su</th>
     <th class="dow">Mo</th>
     ...........
     <th class="dow">Sa</th>
    </tr></thead>
  <tbody>
   ............
   <tr>
    <td class="day  active">23</td>
    <td class="day ">24</td>
    <td class="day ">25</td>
    <td class="day ">26</td>
    <td class="day ">27</td>
    <td class="day ">28</td>
    <td class="day ">29</td></tr>
   <tr>

I found these two frames:

<iframe src="chrome-extension://kdfieneakcjfaiglcfcgkidlkmlijjnh/writer/index.html"></iframe>
<iframe class="ginger-banner-frame" style="width:385px;height:85px;" ng-src="https://cdn.gingersoftware.com/banners/default/chromeextension.writer.underTools.html" src="https://cdn.gingersoftware.com/banners/default/chromeextension.writer.underTools.html"></iframe>

These might be of chrome extensions. Do they have any effect?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 28 '20 at 07:40

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Instead of writing absolute xPath why can you right more short and easy to debug relative xpth. Some thing like

date = 19 # You can choose any date
dateXpath = "//td[contains(@Class,'day') and text()="+str(date)+"]"


# Clicking on calendar input
driver.find_element_by_id('startDateToday').click()

# Clicking on Date
WebDriverWait(driver, 30).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, dateXpath))).click()

# Bug with page, as after clicking on date calendar is not closing. So clicking outside
WebDriverWait(driver, 30).until(
    EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//label[contains(text(),'Total Rows')]"))).click()

Note :

I am assuming your date picker is in same frame as your page. If there is a separate iFrame you need to handle accordingly. Getting "Nosuch element Exception" in Selenium Though XPATH is correct. Not sure is this due to Shadow DOM. Please confirm
Above solution is with assumption that you want to click date from current open month/year ( In this case August, 2020). In case you want to change different Month/ year, you have to identify respective elements accordingly and make amendments in your code.

edited Aug 28 '20 at 07:40

Abanish Tiwari

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answered Aug 24 '20 at 07:44

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There is no such frame (as you can also see in html above) and the relative path also shows the similar error. What might be the reason? – Abanish Tiwari Aug 25 '20 at 04:42
Your xpath is not identifying any date. Try with xpath I have provided in Answer section. – rahul rai Aug 25 '20 at 04:44
I tried the same but still is not working. Similar problem: TimeoutException message – Abanish Tiwari Aug 25 '20 at 17:14
There are not any frames in the section above the body part of the HTML. When I searched – Abanish Tiwari Aug 25 '20 at 17:26
How can I select the specific date and month with the automation in datepicker table – Abanish Tiwari Aug 25 '20 at 18:09
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Please use edited Answer. There was one small issue with earlier code as there was extra s in class and C was in small alphabet instead of C. Above will help you choose any date from open month. Also there is a bug in the page as after clicking on date calendar is not closing that's why last line was needed. – rahul rai Aug 25 '20 at 18:11
Does this require the line to wait for the page to load – Abanish Tiwari Aug 25 '20 at 18:16
Now I will try how to change the Month and year. Thanks. – Abanish Tiwari Aug 25 '20 at 18:17
Happy to help. Cheers!!! Yes you can try now chnaging month and year. Let me know any issue. – rahul rai Aug 25 '20 at 18:21

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