who knows how to simulate mouse wheel in selenium

[Yan Lincle]

I know the class actions can simulate mouse press ,hold and drop etc.Today I encoutered a problem ,need to simulate mouse wheel ,how to simulate it?who knows?

[Jakub Siberski]

use JavascriptExecutor and js scrollTo()/scrollBy() methods.

http://selenium.googlecode.com/git/docs/api/java/org/openqa/selenium/JavascriptExecutor.html

http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/met_win_scrollto.asp

http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/met_win_scrollby.asp

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Yan Lincle <ycqy...@gmail.com> wrote:

I know the class actions can simulate mouse press ,hold and drop etc.Today I encoutered a problem ,need to simulate mouse wheel ,how to simulate it?who knows?

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[David]

Do you "really" need to replicate/automate/simulate the mouse wheel scrolling? Or just scrolling in general?

If scrolling in general, then what Jakub mentions should suffice, and probably easier.

If actual simulation of mouse wheel scrolling, I'm not aware if the native Actions class offers that. But you can likely simulate with Javascript, but it's different from what Jakub suggested, it's more like this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6735830/how-to-fire-mouse-wheel-event-in-firefox-with-javascript

I've implemented a wrapper to that myself but have not had the time to fully test out whether that actually works (well) in practice or not. But you're welcome to try and let us know how it worked out for you.

[Yan Lincle]

hi,siberski:
   thank you for your reply,actually,I know this way.it really works.but you know ,in case,I will try not to use javscript method,it is really not close to the real user do.but still thank you

[Yan Lincle]

hi,David:
   I read the article yesterday,yes ,I will try to use it ,and tell you whether it works for me.