Scroll Element into View with Selenium

Have tried many things with respect to scroll, but the below code has provided better results.

This will scroll until the element is in view:

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.id("id_of_element"));
((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("arguments[0].scrollIntoView(true);", element);
Thread.sleep(500); 

//do anything you want with the element

You can use the org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Actions class to move to an element.

Java:

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.id("my-id"));
Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
actions.moveToElement(element);
actions.perform();

Python:

from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains
ActionChains(driver).move_to_element(driver.sl.find_element_by_id('my-id')).perform()

JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;
        js.executeScript("javascript:window.scrollBy(250,350)");

You may want to try this.

If you want to scroll on the Firefox window using the Selenium webdriver, one of the ways is to use JavaScript in the Java code. The JavaScript code to scroll down (to bottom of the web page) is as follows:

JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;
js.executeScript("window.scrollTo(0, Math.max(document.documentElement.scrollHeight, document.body.scrollHeight, document.documentElement.clientHeight));");

Targeting any element and sending down keys (or up/left/right) seems to work also. I know this is a bit of a hack, but I'm not really into the idea of using JavaScript to solve the scrolling problem either.

For example:

WebElement.sendKeys(Keys.DOWN);

In Selenium we need to take the help of a JavaScript executor to scroll to an element or scroll the page:

je.executeScript("arguments[0].scrollIntoView(true);", element);

In the above statement element is the exact element where we need to scroll. I tried the above code, and it worked for me.

I have a complete post and video on this:

http://learn-automation.com/how-to-scroll-into-view-in-selenium-webdriver/

webElement = driver.findElement(By.xpath("bla-bla-bla"));
((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("arguments[0].scrollIntoView();", webElement);

For more examples, go here. All in Russian, but Java code is cross-cultural :)

You can use this code snippet to scroll:

C#

var element = Driver.FindElement(By.Id("element-id"));
Actions actions = new Actions(Driver);
actions.MoveToElement(element).Perform();

There you have it

This worked for me:

IWebElement element = driver.FindElements(getApplicationObject(currentObjectName, currentObjectType, currentObjectUniqueId))[0];
 ((IJavaScriptExecutor)driver).ExecuteScript("arguments[0].scrollIntoView(true);", element);

I found that the bounding rect of my element was not correct, leading to the browser scrolling well off the screen. However, the following code works rather well for me:

private void scrollToElement(WebElement webElement) throws Exception {
    ((JavascriptExecutor)webDriver).executeScript("arguments[0].scrollIntoViewIfNeeded()", webElement);
    Thread.sleep(500);
}

Use the driver to send keys like the pagedown or downarrow key to bring the element into view. I know it's too simple a solution and might not be applicable in all cases.

From my experience, Selenium Webdriver doesn't auto scroll to an element on click when there are more than one scrollable section on the page (which is quite common).

I am using Ruby, and for my AUT, I had to monkey patch the click method as follows;

class Element

      #
      # Alias the original click method to use later on
      #
      alias_method :base_click, :click

      # Override the base click method to scroll into view if the element is not visible
      # and then retry click
      #
      def click
        begin
          base_click
        rescue Selenium::WebDriver::Error::ElementNotVisibleError
          location_once_scrolled_into_view
          base_click
        end
      end

The 'location_once_scrolled_into_view' method is an existing method on WebElement class.

I apreciate you may not be using Ruby but it should give you some ideas.

The Ruby script for scrolling an element into view is as below.

$driver.execute_script("arguments[0].scrollIntoView(true);", element)
sleep(3)
element.click

Sometimes I also faced the problem of scrolling with Selenium. So I used javaScriptExecuter to achieve this.

For scrolling down:

WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
js.executeScript("window.scrollBy(0, 250)", "");

Or, also

js.executeScript("scroll(0, 250);");

For scrolling up:

js.executeScript("window.scrollBy(0,-250)", "");

Or,

js.executeScript("scroll(0, -250);");

This is a repeated solution with JavaScript, but with an added waiting for element.

Otherwise ElementNotVisibleException may appear if some action on the element is being done.

this.executeJavaScriptFunction("arguments[0].scrollIntoView(true);", elementToBeViewable);
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(getDriver(), 5);
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOf(elementToBeViewable));

Selenium 2 tries to scroll to the element and then click on it. This is because Selenium 2 will not interact with an element unless it thinks that it is visible.

Scrolling to the element happens implicitly so you just need to find the item and then work with it.

I have used this way for scrolling the element and click:

List<WebElement> image = state.getDriver().findElements(By.xpath("//*[contains(@src,'image/plus_btn.jpg')]"));

for (WebElement clickimg : image)
{
  ((JavascriptExecutor) state.getDriver()).executeScript("arguments[0].scrollIntoView(false);", clickimg);
  clickimg.click();
}

def scrollToElement(element: WebElement) = {
  val location = element.getLocation
  driver.asInstanceOf[JavascriptExecutor].executeScript(s"window.scrollTo(${location.getX},${location.getY});")
}

Something that worked for me was to use the Browser.MoveMouseToElement method on an element at the bottom of the browser window. Miraculously it worked in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome.

I chose this over the JavaScript injection technique just because it felt less hacky.

You may want to visit page Scroll Web elements and Web page- Selenium WebDriver using Javascript:

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    FirefoxDriver ff = new FirefoxDriver();
    ff.get("http://toolsqa.com");
    Thread.sleep(5000);
    ff.executeScript("document.getElementById('text-8').scrollIntoView(true);");
}

If you think other answers were too hacky, this one is too, but there is no JavaScript injection involved.

When the button is off the screen, it breaks and scrolls to it, so retry it... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

try
{
    element.Click();
}
catch {
    element.Click();
}

In most of the situation for scrolling this code will work.

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath("xpath_Of_Element"));                 
js.executeScript("arguments[0].click();",element);

JAVA

Try scroll to element utilize x y position, and use JavascriptExecutor with this is argument: "window.scrollBy(x, y)".

Following import:

import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.JavascriptExecutor;

First you need get x y location the element.

//initialize element
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.id("..."));

//get position
int x = element.getLocation().getX();
int y = element.getLocation().getY();

//scroll to x y 
JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;
js.executeScript("window.scrollBy(" +x +", " +y +")");

I am not sure if the question is still relevant but after referring to scrollIntoView documentation from https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/scrollIntoView.

The easiest solution would be

executor.executeScript("arguments[0].scrollIntoView({block: \"center\",inline: \"center\",behavior: \"smooth\"});",element);

This scrolls the element into center of the page.

Javascript

The solustion is simple:

const element = await driver.findElement(...)
await driver.executeScript("arguments[0].scrollIntoView(true);", element)
await driver.sleep(500);

The default behavior of Selenium us to scroll so the element is barely in view at the top of the viewport. Also, not all browsers have the exact same behavior. This is very dis-satisfying. If you record videos of your browser tests, like I do, what you want is for the element to scroll into view and be vertically centered.

Here is my solution for Java:

public List<String> getBoundedRectangleOfElement(WebElement we)
{
    JavascriptExecutor je = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;
    List<String> bounds = (ArrayList<String>) je.executeScript(
            "var rect = arguments[0].getBoundingClientRect();" +
                    "return [ '' + parseInt(rect.left), '' + parseInt(rect.top), '' + parseInt(rect.width), '' + parseInt(rect.height) ]", we);
    System.out.println("top: " + bounds.get(1));
    return bounds;
}

And then, to scroll, you call it like this:

public void scrollToElementAndCenterVertically(WebElement we)
{
    List<String> bounds = getBoundedRectangleOfElement(we);
    Long totalInnerPageHeight = getViewPortHeight(driver);
    JavascriptExecutor je = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;
    je.executeScript("window.scrollTo(0, " + (Integer.parseInt(bounds.get(1)) - (totalInnerPageHeight/2)) + ");");
    je.executeScript("arguments[0].style.outline = \"thick solid #0000FF\";", we);
}

I've been doing testing with ADF components and you have to have a separate command for scrolling if lazy loading is used. If the object is not loaded and you attempt to find it using Selenium, Selenium will throw an element-not-found exception.

If nothing works, try this before clicking:

public void mouseHoverJScript(WebElement HoverElement) {

    String mouseOverScript = "if(document.createEvent){var evObj = document.createEvent('MouseEvents');evObj.initEvent('mouseover', true, false); arguments[0].dispatchEvent(evObj);} else if(document.createEventObject) { arguments[0].fireEvent('onmouseover');}";
    ((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript(mouseOverScript, HoverElement);
}

In Java we can scroll by using JavaScript, like in the following code:

driver.getEval("var elm = window.document.getElementById('scrollDiv'); if (elm.scrollHeight > elm.clientHeight){elm.scrollTop = elm.scrollHeight;}");

You can assign a desired value to the "elm.scrollTop" variable.

A solution is:

public void javascriptclick(String element)
{
    WebElement webElement = driver.findElement(By.xpath(element));
    JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;

    js.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", webElement);
    System.out.println("javascriptclick" + " " + element);
}