I'm going to use my psychic debugging powers to deduce that you're automating IE with the watir-webdriver gem. If I'm wrong, disregard the following explanation.
Screenshots in WebDriver are, by definition, of the full page. However, in order to take a screenshot of the full page without scrolling (which would screw up absolutely positioned elements), you have to be able to render the full page in IE. The only way to get the full page to render is to resize the IE window so that the full page is visible without scrolling. So, the IE driver does the resize automatically for the screenshot API call, then restores the window to the state it was in before the call. If you're attempting to use IE10, on Windows 8, screenshots are one of the few things that don't work entirely properly. It's entirely possible that Microsoft has closed the loophole the IE driver uses to create full-page screenshots in Windows 8. --Jim On Wednesday, January 16, 2013 9:42:45 AM UTC-5, Evgeny Shavkunov wrote: > > Hi, > > I was trying to make a screenshot from the page using > "browser.screenshot.save" and I found that only small part of the page > (even less then visible part in the window) is saved in file. Later I > discovered that before screenshot is taken browser is automatically > minimized and then maximized back after. > > What can be the reason for that? How can I get a screenshot with a whole > page? > > Thank you! > -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general [email protected]
