How to Take a Full-Page Scrolling Screenshot in Chrome (2026 Guide)

The short answer

Chrome can’t capture a whole scrolling page from its menus. You have two good options:

1. An extension (best for regular use): install ClickSnap and press Alt + Shift + F (Option + Shift + F on a Mac). It scrolls the page, stitches the screens into one image and opens an editor.
2. Chrome DevTools (no install): press F12, then Ctrl + Shift + P (Cmd + Shift + P on a Mac), type full size screenshot and press Enter. Chrome saves a PNG to Downloads.

The rest of this guide explains both, plus how to fix the problems you’ll eventually hit: repeated headers, blank images and pages that scroll inside a box.

Why your normal screenshot shortcut isn’t enough

Print Screen, Snipping Tool, Cmd + Shift + 4 and the Chromebook screenshot key all photograph your screen. A web page usually continues far below the bottom of the window, and those tools can’t scroll it. You’d have to take several screenshots and line them up by hand.

A full-page tool does the scrolling for you. Extensions capture the page one screen at a time and stitch the pieces together; DevTools asks Chrome’s rendering engine to draw the whole page at once.

Method 1: a full-page screenshot extension

This is the method to use if you take screenshots more than occasionally, or if you need to point at things, hide private details or paste the result somewhere.

With ClickSnap:

1. Install ClickSnap from the Chrome Web Store and pin it to the toolbar.
2. Open the page and press Alt + Shift + F, or click the ClickSnap icon and choose Full Page.
3. The toolbar icon shows progress. Press Esc to cancel.
4. The editor opens with the whole page. Add arrows, numbered steps or blur if you need them.
5. Click Copy to paste it into Slack, Docs or a ticket, or Export to save a PNG, JPG, WebP or PDF.

Chrome lets extensions capture about two screens per second, so a long page takes a few seconds. ClickSnap captures at that limit, so a 10-screen page takes about five seconds.

Method 2: Chrome DevTools (built in)

1. Open the page and press F12 (or Ctrl + Shift + I; Cmd + Option + I on a Mac).
2. Press Ctrl + Shift + P (Cmd + Shift + P) to open the command menu.
3. Type full size screenshot and choose Capture full size screenshot.
4. Chrome saves a PNG to your Downloads folder.

Good: nothing to install, and it’s fast.

Not so good: pages that load images as you scroll often come out with blank boxes, some sticky elements render in odd places, and there’s no way to annotate or blur before sharing.

Method 3: Microsoft Edge Web Capture

If you use Edge, press Ctrl + Shift + S and choose Capture full page. It has a simple pen for marking up. ClickSnap also runs in Edge, Brave and other Chromium browsers.

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Fixing common problems

The header repeats down the page. The site has a sticky or fixed navigation bar that follows you as you scroll, so it lands in every screen. ClickSnap hides sticky and fixed elements after the first screen and restores them afterwards. Read why full-page screenshots repeat the header.

Images lower down are blank or grey. Many sites load images only when you scroll near them. Scroll to the bottom of the page once, wait a second, scroll back up and capture again.

Only the top of the page is captured. Some web apps (Gmail, Notion and many dashboards) scroll inside a panel instead of the whole window. ClickSnap looks for the main scrolling area automatically; if it picks the wrong one, click or scroll inside the area you want once, then capture.

The image looks blurry. Usually it was scaled down or saved as JPG. Export PNG, keep browser zoom at 100% and see how to fix blurry screenshots.

The page is extremely long. Browsers can’t draw an image taller than 16,384 pixels, so ClickSnap shows very long pages scaled down in the editor. Open Export → Very long page to save it at full resolution as several images or one multi-page PDF.

Step-by-step guides for your computer

• Full-page screenshot on a Mac
• Full-page screenshot on Windows
• Full-page screenshot on a Chromebook
• Save a web page as an image or as a PDF