How to scroll within an internal scroll menu on a page? Python/selenium

Question

Tryin to scroll through a scroll box within a page, the html code looks like this:

<main data-infinite-scroll-context="" id="chat" data-chat-initialized="true" data-chat-current-filter="inbox" class="flex-auto h-100 overflow-auto"></main>

So far I have tried:

for i in range(0, 10):
htmlElem = browser.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@class="flex-auto h-100 overflow-auto""]')
htmlElem.send_keys(Keys.END)
print(i)
time.sleep(2)

and:

for i in range(0, 10):
    htmlElem = browser.find_element_by_tag_name('body')
    htmlElem.send_keys(Keys.END)
    print(i)
    time.sleep(2)

Neither of which are leading to the desired result. Would appreciate some help if possible.

Sending keys to browser itself might work, check out this post https://stackoverflow.com/a/28482440/12422518 — furkanayd, Dec 06 '19 at 18:36
I have previously tried that as well, it won't work. The scroll box is embedded. — Artur Podlesniy, Dec 06 '19 at 18:38
How about execute JS scroll https://stackoverflow.com/a/44540150/12422518 — furkanayd, Dec 06 '19 at 18:40

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 06 '19 at 20:09

I had this problem 2 years ago, problem was the selection of the field to send keys. Solution for me was a action chain.

        actions = webdriver.ActionChains(self.driver)
        actions.move_to_element(body_element)
        actions.click()
        for x in range(scroll_count):
            actions.send_keys(Keys.PAGE_DOWN)
            actions.wait(1)

        actions.perform()

How to scroll within an internal scroll menu on a page? Python/selenium

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