xdotool how to do horizontal scrolling?

Question

I'm writing a bash script to control a browser remotely. So far I have vertical scrolling implemented using

xdotool click 4 //up
xdotool click 5 //down

How can I implement horizontal scrolling using xdotool? I saw numbers 6 and 7 mentioned on some site, but that did not work.

Dissident

Answer 1

Instead of a click, you can send the Left or Right arrow keys:

xdotool key Right
xdotool key Left

Konya

Unfortunately, this won't do everytime. For example, on spreadsheets, the selector will just move left/right to the adjacent cell rather than scrolling the whole work space sideways. – Neil

Answer 2

Just use these:

xdotool click 6 # left
xdotool click 7 # right

Ardie