Scrolling to element using webdriver

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I am still learning and in response to one of my questions  here  I was told to that it might be due because the element in question is not in view    I looked through the documentation and SO  here was the most relevant answer  here  You can use the  org openqa selenium interactions Actions  class to move to an element   WebElement element   driver findElement By id  my-id     Actions actions   new Actions driver   actions moveToElement element      actions click    actions perform      When I try to use the above to scroll to the element  It says WebElement not defined   I think this is because I have not imported the relevant module  Can someone point out what I am supposed to import   Edit  As pointed out by alecxe  this was java code   But in the meantime right after trying to figure it out for some time  I have found out the import method for WebElement   from selenium webdriver remote webelement import WebElement   Might help someone like me   The how of it is also a good lesson  IMO   Went to  Documentation The   class selenium webdriver remote webelement WebElement parent  id   w3c False    Need to be separated into the command form mentioned above

User · Accepted Answer

You are trying to run Java code with Python. In Python/Selenium, the org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Actions are reflected in ActionChains class:

from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains

element = driver.find_element_by_id("my-id")

actions = ActionChains(driver)
actions.move_to_element(element).perform()

Or, you can also "scroll into view" via scrollIntoView():

driver.execute_script("arguments[0].scrollIntoView();", element)

If you are interested in the differences:

scrollIntoView vs moveToElement

User · Answer

You can scroll to the element by using javascript through the execute javascript method  For example here is how I do it using SeleniumLibrary on Robot Framework   web element   self selib find element locator  self selib execute javascript       ARGUMENTS       web element       JAVASCRIPT        arguments 0  scrollIntoView  behavior   instant   block   start   inline   start

User · Answer

Example  driver execute script  quot arguments 0  scrollIntoView    quot   driver find element by css selector  your css selector    This one always works for me for any type of selectors  There is also the Actions class  but for this case  it is not so reliable

User · Answer

This can be done using driver execute script   -  driver execute script  document getElementById  myelementid   scrollIntoView

User · Answer

There is another option to scroll page to required element if element has  id  attribute  If you want to navigate to page and scroll down to element with  id  it can be done automatically by adding  element id to URL     Example  Let s say we need to navigate to Selenium Waits documentation and scroll page down to  Implicit Wait  section  We can do  driver get  https   selenium-python readthedocs io waits html     and add code for scrolling   OR use  driver get  https   selenium-python readthedocs io waits html implicit-waits     to navigate to page AND scroll page automatically to element with id  implicit-waits    lt div class  section  id  implicit-waits  gt     lt  div gt

User · Answer

It s not a direct answer on question  its not about Actions   but it also allow you to scroll easily to required element   element   driver find element by id  some id   element location once scrolled into view   This actually intend to return you coordinates  x  y  of element on page  but also scroll down right to target element

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In addition to move to element   and scrollIntoView   I wanted to pose the following code which attempts to center the element in the view   desired y    element size  height     2    element location  y   window h   driver execute script  return window innerHeight   window y   driver execute script  return window pageYOffset   current y    window h   2    window y scroll y by   desired y - current y  driver execute script  window scrollBy 0  arguments 0      scroll y by

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