Page scroll up or down in Selenium WebDriver (Selenium 2) using java

Ripon Al Wasim picture Ripon Al Wasim · Sep 6, 2012 · Viewed 411.1k times · Source

I have written the following code in Selenium 1 (a.k.a Selenium RC) for page scrolling using java:

selenium.getEval("scrollBy(0, 250)");

What is the equivalent code in Selenium 2 (WebDriver)?

Answer

Ripon Al Wasim picture Ripon Al Wasim · Sep 6, 2012

Scenario/Test steps:
1. Open a browser and navigate to TestURL
2. Scroll down some pixel and scroll up

For Scroll down:

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
JavascriptExecutor jse = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
jse.executeScript("window.scrollBy(0,250)");

OR, you can do as follows:

jse.executeScript("scroll(0, 250);");

For Scroll up:

jse.executeScript("window.scrollBy(0,-250)");
OR,
jse.executeScript("scroll(0, -250);");

Scroll to the bottom of the page:

Scenario/Test steps:
1. Open a browser and navigate to TestURL
2. Scroll to the bottom of the page

Way 1: By using JavaScriptExecutor

jse.executeScript("window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight)");

Way 2: By pressing ctrl+end

driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("body")).sendKeys(Keys.CONTROL, Keys.END);

Way 3: By using Java Robot class

Robot robot = new Robot();
robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_CONTROL);
robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_END);
robot.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_END);
robot.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_CONTROL);