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Hello,
  I'm a newb to Cypress and I'm trying to figure out how to pick a date, say 01/01/1980, from a date picker. I am also trying to select a value from a combobox and while I can get Cypress to click the dropdown, I'm having trouble getting it to select a value. The elements are screenshotted along with the errors I'm getting. Below is the code I'm trying.

For the DoB, I am trying this which does nothing:

    cy.get('input[name="birthDate"]').invoke('val','01/01/1980').should('eq', '01/01/1980').then((text) => {
      expect('01/01/1980').to.equal(text);
});


For the sex selection, I am trying:

    cy.get('INPUT').parent('div.ui.search.selection.dropdown').click()
    cy.contains("<span class=\"text\">Male</span>").click()

This opens the dropdown to make the selection but can't find the Male value. 

Thank you in advance for any help!

I figured out the date problem by changing it to:

    cy.get('input[name="birthDate"]')
        .type("1980-01-01");

I tried this earlier but was using mm-dd-yyyy format and it didn't work. Still looking for help with the combobox issue.

it would be hard to help without a reproducible example