Guides
Short guides on taking full-page screenshots in Chrome — what goes wrong, why, and what to do about it.
- How to Save a Screenshot as a PDF in ChromeThere are two different things people mean by this, and picking the wrong one is why the result looks nothing like the page. Here is the difference, and the method for each.·7 min read
- How to Take a Long ScreenshotA long screenshot is one image taller than your screen. Phones and browsers each do it differently, and some of them do not do it at all. Here is the method for each, and what to do when there isn't one.·7 min read
- How to Screenshot an Entire Webpage in ChromeFour ways to capture a whole page top to bottom, including the one already built into Chrome that most people never find. What each is good at, and where each one breaks.·8 min read
- Why Your Full-Page Screenshot Is Cut Off at the BottomThe same page captures fine on a desktop and loses its last third on a laptop. The reason is a height limit counted in device pixels, which means a sharper screen runs out sooner.·6 min read
- Why the Header Repeats Down Your ScreenshotThe menu bar that follows you down the page turns up once per screen in a stitched screenshot. Here is the mechanism, how to recognize it, and what stops it.·5 min read
- Why the Cookie Banner Is in Every Frame of Your ScreenshotA consent banner does more damage to a full-page capture than an ordinary sticky header. It repeats, it covers content, and on some sites it stops the page scrolling at all.·5 min read
- Why a Chat Widget Floats in the Middle of Your ScreenshotThe support bubble sits in the corner of your window, so why is it halfway down the image? Because of when it loaded, not where it sits.·5 min read
- How to Check What a Chrome Extension Can See Before You Install ItChrome tells you what an extension is allowed to do, once, in a box most people click straight through. Here is how to read it, and the setting that lets you take access back afterwards.·5 min read