How to Take a Full-Page Screenshot of Any Website
Capture an entire scrolling web page — not just the visible part — as a single image or PDF. Here's how to take full-page, region, and visible-area screenshots in Chrome.
You’ve been there: you need to capture a whole web page — the full article, the entire dashboard, the complete checkout flow — but the page is far taller than your screen. Stitching together five separate screenshots in an image editor is nobody’s idea of a good time.
The fix is a proper full-page screenshot tool. Here’s how full-page capture works and when to use each mode.
Three kinds of screenshot
Most capture needs fall into one of three buckets:
- Visible area — exactly what’s on screen right now. Fast, and perfect for quick shares.
- Selected region — you draw a box around just the part you want. Great for cropping out clutter.
- Full page — the entire scrolling page, top to bottom, captured as one seamless image.
A tool like ScreenKit handles all three, so you’re never stuck copying and pasting fragments together.
How to capture a full-page screenshot
- Open the page you want to capture.
- Click the ScreenKit icon and choose Full page.
- The extension scrolls the page automatically, capturing as it goes, and assembles everything into a single image.
- Review it in the built-in editor, mark it up if needed, and export.
Because the capture happens locally in your browser, even long internal pages with sensitive data never get uploaded anywhere.
When to use full-page capture
- Bug reports — show the entire state of a page, not just the broken button.
- Design reviews — hand off a complete mockup or live page to a teammate.
- Documentation — archive a full record of a form, receipt, or settings screen.
- Competitive research — save an entire landing page for reference.
Annotate before you share
A raw screenshot is fine; an annotated one is far more useful. After capturing, use the editor to:
- Draw arrows pointing to exactly what matters.
- Add boxes to group related elements.
- Drop in text callouts to explain context.
- Highlight or redact anything sensitive.
Exporting
Save your screenshot as a PNG or JPEG for images, or export a full page as a PDF when you need a document-style record. You can also copy the image straight to your clipboard and paste it into Slack, a ticket, or a doc.
The privacy angle
Many browser screenshot tools quietly send your captures to a cloud service to do the “stitching.” That’s a problem when the page contains customer data or internal metrics. ScreenKit does all processing on your device — nothing is uploaded, and it works offline.
Want cleaner screenshots without the copy-paste gymnastics? Add ScreenKit to Chrome — it’s free and takes seconds to set up.