Part 8: Usages Of Javascripts In Selenium: How To Scroll Web Page In Selenium WebDriver Using Javascript

Hello Folks,

In last post, we learnt about methods of Javascript which are used to scroll a web page. In this post, we will see usage of those methods in selenium webdriver.

Scroll web page using scrollTo method:

Selenium webdriver provides an inbuilt method called executeScript to execute any javascript command. We will use same methods to execute scrollTo commands.

Syntax:

window.scrollTo(0,300);

Kindly notice here I am using “window” not “document”. There are difference between window and document in javascript.  Let’s learn that as well:

Difference between window and document in javascript:

“window” and “document” are object in javascript which are not same. When we launch a browser, what you see (excluding header , footer i.e. highlighted below) is “window” as below:

 

When you launch any URL in window, is called “document”.

Here we need to scroll window, so we need to call scroll methods on window object.

Java code:

When you will run above code, you will see window is scrolled vertically down thrice on interval of 2 seconds.

Scroll web page using scrollBy method:

We already know the major difference between scrollTo and scrolBy methods. We will see implementation below:

Javacode:

When you will run above code, you will see window is scrolled vertically down thrice on interval of 2 seconds.

Scroll web page using scroll method:

It will be same as scrollTo method. See example below:

Note: When you pass co-ordinates with negative sign, it will be scrolled up.

That’s it guys in this post. We will see some more interesting thing about scroll in up coming posts.

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2 thoughts on “Part 8: Usages Of Javascripts In Selenium: How To Scroll Web Page In Selenium WebDriver Using Javascript

  1. Hi Amod,
    I am only able execute Command1 and rest of the two commands throwing the following error while performing scroll action . Could you please explain.
    Error:Exception in thread “main” org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: call function result missing ‘value’

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