How to select data from Datepicker using Selenium WebDriver ?

Selecting a date from Datepicker using Selenium WebDriver

Calendars look pretty and of course they are fancy too.So now a days most of the websites are using advanced jQuery Datepickers instead of displaying individual dropdowns for month,day,year. :P

Datepicker

If we look at the Datepicker, it is just a like a table with set of rows and columns.To select a date ,we just have to navigate to the cell where our desired date is present.

Here is a sample code on how to pick a 13th date from the next month.
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import java.util.List; 
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.BeforeTest; 
import org.testng.annotations.Test;; 
 
public class DatePicker { 
 
 WebDriver driver; 
  
 @BeforeTest 
 public void start(){ 
 System.setProperty("webdriver.firefox.bin", "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe");   
 driver = new FirefoxDriver(); 
 } 
  
 @Test 
 public void Test(){ 
  
  driver.get("http://jqueryui.com/datepicker/"); 
  driver.switchTo().frame(0); 
  driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(60, TimeUnit.SECONDS); 
  //Click on textbox so that datepicker will come 
  driver.findElement(By.id("datepicker")).click(); 
  driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(60, TimeUnit.SECONDS); 
  //Click on next so that we will be in next month 
  driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='ui-datepicker-div']/div/a[2]/span")).click(); 
   
  /*DatePicker is a table.So navigate to each cell  
   * If a particular cell matches value 13 then select it 
   */ 
  WebElement dateWidget = driver.findElement(By.id("ui-datepicker-div")); 
  List<webelement> rows=dateWidget.findElements(By.tagName("tr")); 
  List<webelement> columns=dateWidget.findElements(By.tagName("td")); 
   
  for (WebElement cell: columns){ 
   //Select 13th Date  
   if (cell.getText().equals("13")){ 
   cell.findElement(By.linkText("13")).click(); 
   break; 
   } 
  }  
 } 
}</webelement></webelement>