Scrolling to top of the page in Python using Selenium

Question

I'm having issues with scrolling to the top of the web page when using Python and Selenium.

When the page loads for some reason you are taken to the bottom of the page (this is due to be fixed). However, when I'm trying to scroll to the top it does not work.

I tried the following:

self.driver.execute_script("scroll(0, -250);")

And

self.driver.execute_script("scroll(0, 0);")

I have also tried locating the element then scrolling to it:

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

The above scrollIntoView() code works when scrolling down to the element. However, it does not work scrolling up.

I have tried this running Chrome Driver and PhantomJs.

Any suggestions?

Restorative

have you tried putting window.scrollTo(0, 0); inside of your execute_script? – Multiply

@mangoHero1 I've tried self.driver.window.scroll("window.scroll(0, 0);") and the script displayed the following error: self.driver.window.scroll("window.scroll(0, 0);") AttributeError: 'WebDriver' object has no attribute 'window' – Restorative

@mangoHero1 sorry I saw the typo corrected it and did the following: self.driver.execute_script("window.scroll(0, 0);") still didnt scroll up. – Restorative

@jlaur yeah sorry this was done late at night and I typed the code above. What i actually tried, which didnt work, was the following: self.driver.execute_script("window.scrollTo(0, 0);") – Restorative

Answer 1

You can consider to locate the element in the HTML DOM first, then we can scroll the element into the Viewport as follows:

element = driver.find_element_by_xpath("element_xpath")
self.driver.execute_script("return arguments[0].scrollIntoView(true);", element)

Mcgrew

Answer 2

You can simply use CTRL + HOME keys. It will scroll to the top of the page.

from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
driver.find_element_by_tag_name('body').send_keys(Keys.CONTROL + Keys.HOME)

Arlettearley

probably need to from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys first? – Donata

@ErichBSchulz, yes, that's correct. Keys needs to be imported. – Arlettearley

This doesn't seem to work if the browser is minimized – Ronen

If you get the following warning: DeprecationWarning: find_element_by_* commands are deprecated. Please use find_element() instead change the code to: from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//body').send_keys(Keys.CONTROL + Keys.HOME) – Simple

Answer 3

There are 4 ways to scroll up or down

1)scroll by pixel

driver.execute_script("window.scrollBy(0,0)","")

2)scroll down until the element is not found

element=driver.find_element(By.XPATH,"xpath of element")
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].scrollIntoView();",element)

3)scroll till the end of the page

driver.execute_script("window.scrollBy(0,document.body.scrollHeight)")

4. using Action Chains

   elementpos=driver.find_element(By.XPATH,"xpath of element")
   actions=ActionChains(driver) actions.move_to_element(elementpos).perform()

Emetic

Answer 4

You can use document.body.scrollTop: it will scroll to the top of the page no matter the height of it. Like this:

driver.execute_script("window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollTop);")

Fessler

Answer 5

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("__")

#to scroll try use the following command
driver.execute_script("scrollBy(0,250);")

It will work !!

Devilment

Please add more details to your answer – Stinger

Answer 6

Please try this:

driver.execute_script("document.querySelector('div[role=dialog] ul').parentNode.scrollTop=1e100")

Opah

Answer 7

from selenium import webdriver

t=10
while t:

#if you want to scroll to the end of the page,use this

driver.execute_script("window.scrollTo(0,document.body.scrollHeight);")
    sleep(3)


#if you want to scroll down upto some level use this, here i used "1000" you may vary 
#it according to your use

driver.execute_script("scrollBy(0,+1000);")
    sleep(3)


#if you want to scroll some level up, use this,again i used here "-500" you may vary 
#according to your use 

driver.execute_script("scrollBy(0,-500);")
sleep(3)
t=t-1       # it`s a part of the loop

This will surely help you :)

Amylose

Answer 8

You can use document.body.scrollTop: a javascript variable which contains the value by what the page had been scrolled down before that. like this : driver.execute_script("scrollBy(0,-document.body.scrollTop)")

Frohman