# Capture full pages and scrolling panes

*Product update · October 27, 2026*

Screencap 1.3 adds two capture modes for content that doesn't fit on one screen. **Full Page** scrolls the whole page and stitches it into one image. **Element** captures one part of the page, such as a mail thread, a chat channel or a long table, including the part you have to scroll to see.

![A full-page capture of a long documentation page, from the sticky header at the top down to the footer](https://screencap.app/public/examples/full-page.webp)

*A Full Page capture of a long documentation page. The sticky header appears once, at the top.*

## Full Page

Press **Alt+Shift+F**, or click the toolbar icon and choose **Full Page**. Screencap scrolls from the top, takes one screenshot per screen, and joins them. When it finishes, the image opens in the editor, where you can annotate, redact, crop or export it as PNG, JPEG, WebP or PDF.

While it captures:

- Sticky headers, cookie bars and other fixed elements appear once, in the first screen, instead of on every slice.
- Scrollbars and smooth scrolling are turned off, and they come back when the capture ends. The page returns to where you were.
- The toolbar badge shows progress. Press **Esc** to cancel.

Chrome allows only about two screenshots per second, so a page 20 screens tall takes about 10 seconds.

## Element

Many web apps don't scroll the page at all. Gmail, Slack and many dashboards scroll a pane inside the page. Full Page detects this and captures the main scrolling pane instead. If it picks the wrong pane, or you only want one part of the page, use Element:

1. Click the toolbar icon and choose **Element**. You can also assign it a shortcut at `chrome://extensions/shortcuts`; it has none by default.
2. Move the pointer over the page. Screencap outlines the element under it.
3. Scroll the mouse wheel to select the parent of the outlined element. Do this until the outline covers the whole pane you want.
4. Click to capture. Press **Esc** to cancel.

If the element scrolls, Screencap captures all of its content. If it doesn't, Screencap captures its box and scrolls the page when the box is taller than the window.

## Tips for mail and chat apps

- **Load the messages first.** Chat apps load older messages only when you scroll up to them. Scroll up to the first message you want, then start the capture.
- **Pick the message list, not the whole window.** In a three-column layout, use Element and select only the conversation pane. The result is narrower and easier to read.
- **Zoom out for wide content.** Screencap captures what the tab shows. Zoom out with Ctrl+minus to fit wide tables, then zoom back in.

## Very long pages and Google Docs

Screencap captures up to 30,000 CSS pixels of height. That is about 25 to 30 pages of a Google Doc at 100% zoom. If a page is longer, Screencap keeps the top part and tells you so. Chrome also limits one image to 32,767 pixels on a side, so Screencap reduces a very tall capture to normal resolution before it cuts it.

If you need a whole long document, use the app's own export. In Google Docs, choose **File › Download › PDF Document**. That gives you real, selectable text on every page and no size limit. Use Screencap for the part you want to mark up and share.

If a capture fails, for example because the computer is low on memory, Screencap tries again at a smaller size. If that also fails, it shows a message on the page.

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