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

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);
}

Answer 2

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/

Answer 3

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));

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

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);
}

Answer 6

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);