Scroll Element into View with Selenium

Question

Is there any way in either Selenium 1.x or 2.x to scroll the browser window so that a particular element identified by an XPath is in view of the browser? There is a focus m

Answer 1

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.