Since the release of the new Microsoft Edge, we have heard a lot of feedback about missing the web notes tool that allowed you to capture and mark up content across the web. Frankly, we’ve missed it too! But first, we wanted to make it better. While web notes was a great feature, there was also room for improvement. Many of you reported using it for capturing quick screenshots to copy or share, while others loved the ability to to mark-up full webpages with scrolling. So, we designed the new screenshot feature, web capture, with this in mind and are excited to introduce the basic screen capture functionality to our Dev and Canary builds. In the near future, you can expect to see more functionalities added to web capture, like adding ink or highlights to your captures, capturing full webpages, and scrolling while marking them.
To try it out, use the Settings and more menu (...) in the top right corner of the browser and select Web capture.
When you open web capture, you can use the selection tool to capture just the content you want. We found that sometimes you want more than what you’re able to see on the webpage, so we have added the ability for you to select content lower down on the page. To do this, just hold down the selection tool and drag to the bottom of the page; the page will automatically start to scroll so that you can capture everything you need in one go.
Once you are done with the capture, you will see a menu with a couple of options: 'Copy' and 'Add notes'. Click Copy to add the image to your clipboard. It will then be available for you to paste into any application. If you want to mark up the screenshot with inking tools, select the Add notes option. You will see the image in a dialog box where you can draw on it, share, save and copy with your annotations.
If you love web capture and want to access the tool more quickly, you can pin it directly to your browser toolbar. Just right click on the option in the Settings and more menu (...) and select Show in toolbar. You can also use the keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+S) to invoke web capture.
Try out the new tool and let us know what you think! We love hearing your feedback. From within Microsoft Edge, you can go to “…” menu > Help and feedback > Send feedback, or simply use the shortcut (Shift+Alt+I) to open the feedback tool.
- The Microsoft Edge Product Team
I really love the rate at which you are adding new features to this browser, just checked my browser and I saw now I can draw/annotate my web captures!
super cool, works the way it's supposed to
@vygadeka Using the specified shortcut keys to employ web capture on my Mac (shift-command-S) results in the tab's screen going dark, with a snooze graphic in the center:
Can you help?
@justwantinkingback wrote:@vygadekaany update on when Inking webpages is coming back? That little pen icon in the Legacy Edge version was insanely useful for doing live webdesign reviews with clients over Skype.
it is back, this is on Edge Dev Version 88.0.673.0 (Official build) dev (64-bit)
i selected an area of this page using web capture that is exactly the same feature from Edge legacy and I can ink on it, save it, share it with other apps such as OneNote etc.
@n2iph wrote:Glad to see web capture coming back. When you implement mark-ups and highlighting, please include the ability to lock the cursor horizontally or vertically. To be able to highlight a line of text with a neat straight line is needed. If anyone can draw a straight line with a mouse using the Snipping tool my hat is off to them.
very true.
Snip & Sketch app solved this by adding a ruler so I can use the inking tool to draw a straight horizontal or vertical line (using mouse scroll i can spin the ruler)
so I think Edge team needs to add the same features from Snip & sketch to web capture
Plus, adding the ability to actually Type on the web captures.