How to zoom out of page using python selenium

Question:

I found this for java :-

WebElement html = driver.findElement(By.tagName("html"));
html.sendKeys(Keys.chord(Keys.CONTROL, Keys.ADD));

But how to do this using Python? I want to zoom out one level after get requests.

Asked By: Shekhar Samanta

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Answers:

You can do something similar where you specify the zoom levels as below:

For example, if my body has a <div id='values'>, I could zoom the div using

from selenium import webdriver

def main():
    browser = webdriver.Chrome()
    browser.set_window_size(1000, 1000)
    browser.get("http://yoursite.com")
    browser.execute_script("$('#values').css('zoom', 5);")

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Or Simply try:

driver.execute_script("document.body.style.zoom='zoom %'")
Answered By: Vaulstein

This works for IE

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

driver = webdriver.Ie(executable_path=path_to_driver, capabilities={'ignoreZoomSetting':True})
driver.get(url)
driver.find_element_by_tag_name('html').send_keys(Keys.CONTROL, '0')
Answered By: brian.m

I looked all over for a solution to zoom out using selenium too, the documentation mentions nothing. Luckily the driver for Firefox (geckodriver) have this on one of their Github issues

I’ve made a shorthand brief of how to zoom out (and in), that will hopefully make the most sense (or at least that did for me)

#I'm sure this will be interchangeable with the Chrome driver too
 driver = webdriver.Firefox()
#Set the focus to the browser rather than the web content
 driver.set_context("chrome")
#Create a var of the window
 win = driver.find_element_by_tag_name("window")
#Send the key combination to the window itself rather than the web content to zoom out
#(change the "-" to "+" if you want to zoom in)
 win.send_keys(Keys.CONTROL + "-")
#Set the focus back to content to re-engage with page elements
 driver.set_context("content")
Answered By: dope

this does the job for Python with selenium (-v 3.141.0)

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path='...')
driver.get("www.stackoverflow.com")
driver.execute_script("document.body.style.zoom='50%'")
Answered By: iacomino

Hey guys I had issues with all solutions here using firefox, some solutions didnĀ“t work exactly as expected so with all your help I create this one.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
    
driver.implicitly_wait(5)

driver.get("https://stackoverflow.com/")
#Set the focus to the browser rather than the web content
driver.set_context("chrome")
#Create a var of the window
win = driver.find_element(By.TAG_NAME,"html")
#for zoom out this will change to 90% if you need more copy and paste it again. Or you can change - to + for zoom in.    
win.send_keys(Keys.CONTROL + "-")
    
#Set the focus back to content to re-engage with page elements
driver.set_context("content")
Answered By: Efeuncode