From the course: Playwright Python and Pytest for Web Automation Testing: Master Modern Web Testing with Playwright and Pytest in Python

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UI testing scrollbars

UI testing scrollbars

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UI testing scrollbars

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For this test, we have to handle the scrolling of an element into the view before performing actions on the same. That is here, you will see we have a scroll bar, so if I scroll it to the end and to the end for this as well, you can see we get our button, which is hidden away in the scroll area. so for this test we have to go ahead and scroll this button into the view so let's go ahead and first of all inspect the same you can see we have a button with the text of hiding button i can just select the name on the same now go ahead and locate it so page get by role a button with the name as hiding button. Now to scroll an element into view, playwright offers a method that is scroll into view if needed. What it does is if the element is not visible in our viewport, it goes ahead and scrolls it into the view using the scroll bars. Now the same thing happens if we go ahead and just click on the button now for this we don't have to click on the button we just have to go ahead and scroll into…

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