How to scroll to specific element in Selenium Python?

Python Selenium – Scroll to element

To scroll to a specific element in the webpage using Selenium in Python, you can use the execute_script() method to run JavaScript code that performs the scrolling action to the specified element.

The syntax of the execute_script() method with the JavaScript code is given below.

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

This code scrolls down the page to the starting of the element.

Example

In the following program, we load the URL https://pythonexamples.org/tmp/selenium/index-29.html, and scroll to the element with id=”para3″.

Python Program

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service as ChromeService
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
import time

# Setup chrome driver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=ChromeService(ChromeDriverManager().install()))

# Navigate to the url
driver.get('https://pythonexamples.org/tmp/selenium/index-29.html')

# Get the element
the_element = driver.find_element(By.ID, "para3")

time.sleep(2)

# Scroll to the element using JavaScript
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].scrollIntoView();", the_element)

time.sleep(3)

# Close the driver
driver.quit()

We have introduced some time delay before and after the scrolling action.

Summary

In this Python Selenium tutorial, we have seen how to scroll to a specific element in the web page, with examples.