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

Selenium can scroll to some element in the scrollbar automatically for some simple UI, but for lazy-load UI, scrollToElement is still needed.

This is my implementation in Java with JavascriptExecutor. You can find more details in Satix source code: http://www.binpress.com/app/satix-seleniumbased-automation-testing-in-xml/1958

public static void perform(WebDriver driver, String Element, String ElementBy, By by) throws Exception {
 try {
  //long start_time = System.currentTimeMillis();           
  StringBuilder js = new StringBuilder();
  String browser = "firefox";

  if (ElementBy.equals("id")) {
   js.append("var b = document.getElementById(\"" +
    Element + "\");");
  } else if (ElementBy.equals("xpath")) {
   if (!"IE".equals(browser)) {
    js.append("var b = document.evaluate(\"" +
     Element +
     "\", document, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext();");
   } else {
    throw new Exception("Action error: xpath is not supported in scrollToElement Action in IE");
   }
  } else if (ElementBy.equals("cssSelector")) {
   js.append("var b = document.querySelector(\"" +
    Element + "\");");
  } else {
   throw new Exception("Scroll Action error");
  }

  String getScrollHeightScript = js.toString() + "var o = new Array(); o.push(b.scrollHeight); return o;";

  js.append("b.scrollTop = b.scrollTop + b.clientHeight;");
  js.append("var tmp = b.scrollTop + b.clientHeight;");
  js.append("var o = new Array(); o.push(tmp); return o;");

  int tries = 1;
  String scrollTop = "0";
  while (tries > 0) {
   try {
    String scrollHeight = ((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript(getScrollHeightScript).toString();
    if (scrollTop.equals(scrollHeight)) {
     break;
    } else if (driver.findElement(by).isDisplayed()) {
     break;
    }
    Object o = ((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript(js.toString());
    scrollTop = o.toString();
    Thread.sleep(interval);
    tries++;
   } catch (Exception e) {
    throw new Exception("Action error:" +
     " javascript execute error : " + e.getMessage() + ", javascript : " + js.toString());
   }
  }

 } catch (Exception e) {
  try {
   ScreenshotCapturerUtil.saveScreenShot(driver, CLASSNAME);
  } catch (IOException e1) {
   throw new Exception("Save screenshot error!", e1);
  }
  throw e;
 }
}