# Scrolling forward to find an element

**URL:** <https://discuss.appium.io/t/scrolling-forward-to-find-an-element/46105>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [April 14, 2026, 4:23am UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/scrolling-forward-to-find-an-element/46105 "2026-04-14T04:23:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![kimly\_vat](https://discuss.appium.io/user_avatar/discuss.appium.io/kimly_vat/32/14503_2.png) [@kimly\_vat](https://discuss.appium.io/u/kimly_vat)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2026, 4:23am UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/scrolling-forward-to-find-an-element/46105/1 "2026-04-14T04:23:44Z")

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Hi, everyone, I just started learning appium automation on android. I’ve been facing an issue related to scrolling to find an element. I want to scroll till the element is found, however, when i use this scrollIntoView, the test always scroll up first before scroll down, and this action really make my test script very time consuming. I tried replacing the .scrollIntoView(…) with .scrollForward(), but it is not working. Can I ask for help how I can make this work? Thanks.

```auto
driver.find_element(
        AppiumBy.ANDROID_UIAUTOMATOR,
        'new UiScrollable(new UiSelector().scrollable(true))'
        '.scrollIntoView(new UiSelector().descriptionContains("' + description_part + '"))'

```

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**Author:** ![Aleksei](https://discuss.appium.io/user_avatar/discuss.appium.io/aleksei/32/6267_2.png) [@Aleksei](https://discuss.appium.io/u/Aleksei)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2026, 6:41pm UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/scrolling-forward-to-find-an-element/46105/2 "2026-04-14T18:41:33Z")

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Hi,

No such UiScrollable command that will start search from any place and look for element. You can only write yourselve in loop: scrollForward → try find element.