Selenium IDE: How do I get today's date?

Question

I\'m testing my web application using Selenium IDE. There are test cases in which I have to assert that today\'s date appears on the page. I cannot hard code today\'s date in th

Answer 1

Try this in Selenium IDE. It will print the timestamp as yyyymmddhhmmss.

    storeExpression
    javascript{var date = new Date();date.getFullYear() + '' + ((date.getMonth()+1<10)?('0'+(date.getMonth()+1)):(date.getMonth()+1)) + '' + ((date.getDate()+1<10)?('0'+(date.getDate()+1)):(date.getDate()+1)) + '' + date.getHours() + '' + date.getMinutes() + '' + date.getSeconds();}
    date


    echo
    ${date}