Guides
Short guides on taking full-page screenshots in Chrome — what goes wrong, why, and what to do about it.
- Why Your Full-Page Screenshot Came Out BlurryThe image looks soft, the text has fuzzy edges, and the page looked perfectly sharp in the browser. There are three separate causes, and they need different fixes.·6 min read
- Why Images Are Blank or Grey in Your ScreenshotGrey rectangles where the photos should be. The images were never missing — they had not loaded yet when the shot was taken, because the capture moved faster than the page did.·6 min read
- How to Screenshot a Page That Keeps Loading MoreA feed has no bottom. Every time the capture reaches the end, the page adds another screenful. Here is why that produces a seam or a runaway file, and how to get a usable image anyway.·6 min read
- Why Only Part of the Page Ended Up in Your ScreenshotThe window did not scroll — a box inside it did. Full-page capture works on the page, and a panel with its own scrollbar is not the page. Here is how to tell, and what actually works.·6 min read
- Why Your Screenshot File Is So LargeTwenty megabytes for a picture of a web page, and the mail client will not send it. The size is not a mistake — it follows from what a full-page capture is. Here is how to bring it down.·5 min read
- Why the Footer Repeats at the Bottom of Every FrameA cookie bar, a newsletter prompt or a toolbar pinned to the foot of the window turns up once per screen in a stitched capture. It is easier to miss than a repeating header, and it hides more.·4 min read
- Why There Is a Scrollbar Down the Side of Your ScreenshotA grey stripe along the right edge, sometimes with the thumb visible partway down. The capture photographed the browser window, and the scrollbar is part of the window.·4 min read
- Why Your Screenshot Came Out in the Wrong ThemeYou captured a light page and got a dark image, or the other way round. The page was not wrong — it was rendering for a setting you had forgotten about.·5 min read
- 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. Three are free and need nothing installed, including a command already in 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