GUIDE
How to screenshot an entire webpage on Windows
6 August 2026
A normal screenshot captures what is on screen. A page that scrolls needs something that scrolls with it. Here are the options, cheapest first.
1. The browser can do it, for free
Chrome and Edge both have a full-page capture hidden in developer tools. Press F12, then Ctrl+Shift+P, type screenshot, and choose Capture full size screenshot. You get the entire page as a PNG, no software needed.
The catch: it only works in a browser, on a page the browser fully controls. It cannot capture a long chat window, a spreadsheet, a PDF viewer, a code editor, or an app.
2. Firefox has it in the right-click menu
Right-click any empty part of a page, choose Take Screenshot, then Save full page. Same limitation: browsers only.
3. A scrolling capture, for everything else
A scrolling capture scrolls the window a step at a time, takes a shot at each step, and stitches the results into one tall image. Because it drives the scroll rather than reading the page source, it works anywhere you can scroll, including apps that are not browsers.
In Clarus that is Ctrl+Alt+E: pick the region, and it handles the scrolling and stitching. The capture is measured between frames rather than assumed from the scroll wheel, which is what stops the seams drifting on long pages.
What to watch for
Any stitch-based tool struggles with the same things, whichever one you use: sticky headers that follow you down the page, content that loads lazily as you scroll, and very repetitive low-contrast backgrounds where the joins have nothing distinctive to line up on. Always look at the finished image before you send it.