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Guide

How to take a full-page screenshot in Microsoft Edge

The short answer

Press Ctrl+Shift+S in Microsoft Edge and choose Capture full page: Edge saves the whole page as one image. When a page has sticky headers, images that load as you scroll, or private data you need to cover before you share, a capture extension such as ClarShot handles those cases on your device.

On a phone? The ClarShot steps below are for a computer: ClarShot runs in Chrome and Edge on Windows, Mac, Linux and ChromeOS.

Without installing anything

Edge's built-in screenshot tool

Microsoft Edge has its own screenshot tool. Recent versions call it Screenshot in the menus; older ones call it Web capture. It works the same way:

  1. Open the page you want to capture.
  2. Press Ctrl Shift S, or right-click an empty part of the page and choose the screenshot option.
  3. Choose Capture full page. Edge captures the whole page, including the parts you would have to scroll to see.
  4. Draw or highlight on it if you need to, then copy it or save it.

For a quick capture of an ordinary page, this is often all you need. Microsoft notes that the tool's features can change and can vary by region.

The DevTools command, for developers

Edge and Chrome share the same developer tools, and they include a full-page screenshot command. Press F12, then Ctrl Shift P (Cmd Shift P on a Mac), type screenshot, and choose Capture full size screenshot. The browser saves a PNG of the whole page to your Downloads folder. There is no editor: what you get is the raw image.

Where the built-in tools fall short

Full-page capture is harder than it looks, and a few kinds of pages trip up simple tools:

  • Sticky headers and chat buttons that follow you as you scroll can appear several times in the image, once for every screen the tool stitched together.
  • Images that load only as you scroll can come out blank if the tool captures a part of the page before its images arrived.
  • A panel that scrolls on its own, such as a chat, an inbox or a long table inside a dashboard, is captured only as far as you can see it. The page scrolls, the panel does not. There is a separate guide for that case.
  • Private data in the capture has to be dealt with before you send it. A pen or a highlighter does not hide text; you need an opaque block that replaces the pixels. See how to hide private information in a screenshot.

With ClarShot

ClarShot is a free extension for Chrome and Edge that takes full-page screenshots and keeps them on your device. It makes no network requests, so the capture is never uploaded anywhere.

  1. Add ClarShot to Edge from Microsoft Edge Add-ons. It is free and asks for no account.
  2. On the page, press Alt Shift F, or click the ClarShot icon in the toolbar and choose Full page. If you do not see it, click the puzzle piece (Extensions) next to the address bar and pin ClarShot.
  3. ClarShot scrolls the page for you. It handles sticky headers and images that load as you scroll, and on a very long page you can stop early and keep what it captured so far.
  4. The capture opens in the editor a moment later. Add arrows, boxes or step numbers, and cover anything private with Solid.
  5. Download it as PNG, JPEG, WebP or PDF, or copy it and paste it into an email or a chat.
The ClarShot popup with its capture tiles: Visible, Region, Full page and Scroll, a timer, and the Recent list
The ClarShot popup: Full page is the third tile.
The ClarShot editor with a full-page capture of an invoice table
A full-page capture in the ClarShot editor, ready to mark up and export.

A long page can go out as a PDF split into A4 or Letter pages, portrait or landscape, or as one long page. The editor shows how many pages it will make before you download.

Common problems

Part of the page is blank where images should be

The page loads its images only when they scroll into view. With the built-in tools, scroll to the bottom of the page once, then back to the top, and capture again. ClarShot takes care of this as it scrolls.

The header appears several times

The header is sticky: it stays on screen as the page scrolls, so a tool that stitches screens together can catch it on every one. ClarShot's full page capture handles sticky headers as it scrolls.

I only need part of the page

Capture a selected area instead: Ctrl Shift S then Capture area in Edge, or Alt Shift D in ClarShot, and drag over what matters.

Nothing happens on a new tab, Settings or the store

Browsers do not let extensions capture their own pages, such as a new tab, Settings or the add-on store. Open a regular web page instead. A PDF or a file on your computer needs one setting first; the support page shows where it is.

Try it in ClarShotFree, no account, and nothing you capture leaves your computer.
Add to Chrome

ClarShot works in Chrome and Edge on a computer, not on phones. Send yourself the link and open it there.