A computing system includes a virtualization server that runs virtual machine sessions and provides a hosted application with user interface (UI) elements having scrollable content. A client computing device accesses the hosted application during one of the virtual machine sessions and receives the scrollable content. The client computing device displays at least a portion of the scrollable content as local virtual UI elements, applies user input to scroll the portion of the scrollable content in focus, caches scrollable content that is positioned adjacent the portion of the scrollable content being scrolled that is not in focus, and generates a local virtual UI element graphics overlay that includes at least a portion of the cached scrollable content for display corresponding to a predicted response to the user input.