Selenium execute_script window.scrollTo not scrolling window

Question

I am trying to click on the "Next" button at the bottom of a BusinessWire web page. I have some code that goes from the BusinessWire homepage to my desired search results page. I want to be able to click on that page's "Next" button, but I get the error message telling me that the "Next" element is not clickable at point(X,Y). The next button is at the bottom of the window. For some reason the

browser.execute_script("window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight);")

command is not scrolling as I would expect. Because the window is not scrolling as expected the element is not visible to be clicked (at least I believe that is the problem). I use this same command twice earlier in the code and it works fine in those two instances. Any help on getting the window to scroll would be greatly appreciated. Here is my code:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

def BusinessWire():
    browser = webdriver.Chrome()
    browser.get('http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/')
    search_box_element = browser.find_element_by_id('bw-search-
input')
    search_box_element.clear()
    search_box_element.send_keys('biotechnology')
    search_box_element.send_keys(Keys.ENTER)
    browser.execute_script("window.scrollTo(0, 
document.body.scrollHeight);")
    search_box_element_two = browser.find_element_by_id('more-news-
results')
    search_box_element_two.click()
    browser.execute_script("window.scrollTo(0, 
document.body.scrollHeight);")
    time.sleep(5)
    next_page_click_element = WebDriverWait(browser, 10).until(
        EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//*[@id="more-news-pagination"]/div/div[1]/div/a'))
    )
    next_page_click_element.click()

smit9234 · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-27 19:46:17Z

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Try using scrollIntoView of the element you want to scroll to, sorry this is in Java, but should work the same in python:

    driver.manage().window().maximize();
    driver.get("http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/");
    wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);
    driver.findElement(By.id("bw-search-input")).clear();
    driver.findElement(By.id("bw-search-input")).sendKeys("biotechnology");
    driver.findElement(By.id("bw-search-input")).sendKeys(Keys.ENTER);
    WebElement clicklink = driver.findElement(By.id("more-news-results"));
    ((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("arguments[0].scrollIntoView(true);", clicklink);
    clicklink.click();
    Thread.sleep(1000);
    WebElement clicknext = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.xpath("//*[@id=\"more-news-pagination\"]/div/div[1]/div/a")));
    ((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("arguments[0].scrollIntoView(true);", clicknext);
    clicknext.click();

answered Sep 27, 2017 at 19:46

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Bill Orton Over a year ago

Hi, Thank you very much. This works!! The specific python syntax is: browser.execute_script("arguments[0].scrollIntoView(true);", next_page_click_element)

Bill Orton · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-27 19:37:07Z

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StackOverFlow won't let me post any more comments? The url is in the code. But the homepage url is not the problem page. The problem page is the search page after the home page. The search page can only be gotten to through a search on the homepage. My code does all this.

answered Sep 27, 2017 at 19:37

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Bill Orton Over a year ago

This was not intended to be an answer but a continuation of a previous answer. For some reason the previous answer has now disappeared?

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