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How to take a full page screenshot in Chrome

Short answer: press F12, then Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+P, type “screenshot” and choose Capture full size screenshot; a PNG of the whole page lands in Downloads. For Gmail, Notion, dashboards or a page you need to annotate, a free extension such as FullPage Capture does it in one click. Tested on Chrome, September 2026.

Chrome can screenshot an entire web page without any extension, and for a plain article that is all you need. Web apps, sticky headers, images that load as you scroll and very long pages are where the built-in command gives up, and that is what the other two methods are for. This guide gives the exact steps for all three and says which to use when.

Updated September 27, 2026By the FullPage Capture team, the people who build the extension

The quick answer

Method 1: the built-in DevTools command

Every desktop Chrome has this, hidden in the developer tools. It works on Windows, macOS, Linux and ChromeOS.

1. Open DevToolsPress F12, or Cmd+Option+I on a Mac and Ctrl+Shift+I on Windows and Linux. Any panel will do.
2. Open the command menuPress Cmd+Shift+P (Mac) or Ctrl+Shift+P (Windows, Linux). A search box appears at the top of DevTools.
3. Run "Capture full size screenshot"Type "screenshot" and pick Capture full size screenshot. Chrome scrolls the page internally and saves a PNG of the whole page to your Downloads folder. The same menu has Capture screenshot (the visible part), Capture node screenshot (one element you have selected in the Elements panel) and Capture area screenshot.

Tip: the same command is in the device toolbar. Press Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+M to open it, pick a phone or a custom width, then choose Capture full size screenshot from its three-dot menu. That is the quickest way to get a full page screenshot of the mobile layout of a site.

Where it stops. The command captures the page element, once, as it is at that moment. So:

• A fixed header, cookie bar or chat bubble appears on every screen's worth of the image, or sits on top of the text.
• Images that load as you scroll are often missing, because nothing scrolled. Scrolling to the bottom by hand first helps, but not always.
• A page that scrolls inside a panel rather than as a whole (Gmail, Notion, Slack, most admin dashboards) comes out one screen tall, with the panel cut off.
• Very long pages can come out blank or cut, and there is no warning.
• There is no copy to clipboard, no editor, no PDF, no history. You get a file.

Method 2: a full page screenshot extension

An extension does the scrolling in your tab, screen by screen, and stitches the result, which is what lets it deal with the cases above. There are several in the Chrome Web Store; the steps below are for FullPage Capture, which we make, and they are much the same for the others.

1. Install FullPage CaptureFrom the Chrome Web Store, or from Edge Add-ons in Edge. Free, no account, no watermark.
2. Click the icon, or press the shortcutAlt+Shift+K by default. The page scrolls and captures itself: sticky headers are photographed once and hidden while the rest scrolls past; images that load on scroll are given time to appear; a panel that scrolls inside the page is unrolled on its own.
3. Use the resultA result tab opens with the whole page as one image. Copy it to the clipboard, open the editor to add arrows and text, blur what is private or crop to size, or save it as PNG, JPEG or a PDF with page breaks between lines.

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What changes compared with DevTools.

Method 3: Print to PDF, when you need a document

If the goal is a file to send or archive rather than an image, Chrome's Print (Cmd/Ctrl+P) with Save as PDF as the destination is the built-in route. Know what you get: Chrome re-flows the page with the site's print stylesheet, so it rarely looks like the screen, backgrounds and dark themes usually vanish, lines of text are cut between pages, and anything that scrolls inside a panel is printed only as far as it was scrolled. Links do stay clickable and the text is selectable.

The extension's PDF export starts from the screenshot instead: one long page, or Letter, Legal and A4 with page breaks that fall between lines, and links that still work. The save a webpage as PDF page has the details and a side-by-side table.

The cases that break simple methods

• Gmail, Notion, Trello, dashboards. The page does not scroll; a panel inside it does. Use the extension: it captures the whole window once (sidebar and header included) and then unrolls only the panel.
• Infinite scroll (a social feed, a chat). There is no bottom. Scroll until you have what you need, then capture; the extension captures what is loaded at that point.
• Sticky headers and cookie banners. Dismiss the banner first, then capture with the extension, which keeps the header once. In DevTools, delete the header node in the Elements panel before running the command.
• Very long pages. Chrome's canvas stops at 28,800 pixels per side. Above that the extension saves numbered parts; DevTools may save nothing.
• A page behind a login or on an intranet. Both methods work, because both run in your tab. Online services do not.
• One element only (a table, a chart). In DevTools, select the element and use Capture node screenshot. With the extension, capture and crop to exact pixel sizes in the editor.
• The mobile layout. DevTools' device toolbar, as above; or resize the window narrow and capture with the extension.
• A PDF open in Chrome. Extension only: it renders every page of the file into one image.
• High resolution. Both capture at your screen's pixel density (2x on a Retina display). Zoom the page in before capturing to get more pixels per element.

Windows, Mac and Chromebook

Nothing above depends on the operating system: DevTools and extensions behave the same in Chrome everywhere. What differs is the system's own screenshot tool, and none of them captures more than the screen: Snipping Tool and Print Screen on Windows, Shift+Cmd+3 and 4 on a Mac, Ctrl+Show windows on a Chromebook. Microsoft Edge is the one desktop browser with a full page option built into its screenshot tool; see full page screenshot in Edge. On an iPhone or Android phone the feature is built into the system screenshot instead, and extensions do not run there.

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Related

• Scrolling screenshot, or long screenshot, of any web page in one clickA long screenshot of the whole page in Chrome or Edge on Windows, Mac, Linux and ChromeOS: sticky headers once, inner panels unrolled, lazy images waited for.
• Save any webpage as a PDF, without cutting it offWebpage to PDF that looks like the screen: one long page or A4, Letter, Legal with page breaks between lines and clickable links.
• A screenshot extension that captures the whole page, not just the screenThe screenshot extension for Chrome and Edge: whole-page capture, editor with blur and crop, PNG, JPEG, PDF, clipboard, capture history. Free, offline.