How to scroll to an element in java

Question

I have a question about scrolling to an element. I have this code below where I can filter out how to click an element based on its name:

public class LandingPage extends BasePage {

  public LandingPage(WebDriver webDriver) {
    super(webDriver);
  }

  By cardBody = By.className("card-body");

  public void clickCard(String cardName) {
    List<WebElement> elements = webDriver.findElements(cardBody);
    click(
        elements.stream()
            .filter(element -> element.getText().equalsIgnoreCase(cardName))
            .collect(Collectors.toList())
            .get(0));
  }
}

I want to do a similar thing but instead of clicking on an element, I want to scroll to the element. Does anyone know how to do this?

Does this answer your question? [How to scroll to element with Selenium WebDriver](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28473710/how-to-scroll-to-element-with-selenium-webdriver) — Alexey R., Oct 01 '21 at 13:04

cruisepandey · Answer 1 · 2021-10-01T13:21:31.667

to scroll to a specific element in Java-Selenium bindings, we use JavascriptExecutor like below.

((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("arguments[0].scrollIntoView(true);", ele)

here ele is a WebElement where you want to scrollIntoview

Since you have a list of web elements, elements in your case, you could probably use elements.get(0) or elements.get(1).

or best way would be to iterate through the list and have JavascriptExecutor in your loop.

Something like :

for(WebElement ele : elements){
  ((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("arguments[0].scrollIntoView(true);", ele)
  // do some stuff with ele. 
}

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 01 '21 at 13:14

For true it scrolls element to the top and for false it scrolls element to the bottom. In below code I am scrolling till last element of the list.

Code:

  JavascriptExecutor javascriptExecutor = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;
  List<WebElement> optionList = driver.findElements(By.xpath("xPath to list of elements"));
  int lastElement = (optionList.size() - 1);
  javascriptExecutor.executeScript("arguments[0].scrollIntoView(false);",optionList.get(lastElement));

If you want to scroll till specific element then you can pass the element id.

javascriptExecutor.executeScript("arguments[0].scrollIntoView(false);",optionList.get(3));

How to scroll to an element in java

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