No value attribute in DatePicker input box - selenium

Question

I have to scrape this site and for that first I need to input data in the fields. I am using Selenium library for the task.
http://nhb.gov.in/OnlineClient/categorywiseallvarietyreport.aspx?enc=3ZOO8K5CzcdC/Yq6HcdIxJ4o5jmAcGG5QGUXX3BlAP4=
The page source has the following code in which I want to input the date in the Date input box.
<div style="float: right;">
<input name="ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$txtdate" type="text"
id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_txtdate" style="width:100px;" />
</div>
But there happens to be no value attribute and when I try to send input using the driver.send_keys() method nothing happens.
This is what I've tried but it doesn't work.
date = driver.find_element_by_id("ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_txtdate")
date.send_keys('09/12/2018')
I have even tried mouse operations using ActionChains module but the Date input box is not clickable.
Is there anything that I'm doing wrong here?

Answer 1

I tried it your way, and it worked for me. Not sure why it's not working with you.
Here's the code I used with what you provided:
from selenium import webdriver
url = 'http://nhb.gov.in/OnlineClient/categorywiseallvarietyreport.aspx?enc=3ZOO8K5CzcdC/Yq6HcdIxJ4o5jmAcGG5QGUXX3BlAP4='
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get(url)
date = driver.find_element_by_id("ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_txtdate")
date.send_keys('09/12/2018')
And it worked.
Maybe, try using .find_element_by_name and use "ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$txtdate" ??
url = 'http://nhb.gov.in/OnlineClient/categorywiseallvarietyreport.aspx?enc=3ZOO8K5CzcdC/Yq6HcdIxJ4o5jmAcGG5QGUXX3BlAP4='
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get(url)
driver.find_element_by_name("ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$txtdate").send_keys('09/12/2018')