How to copy a site page with all its contents

The question of how to copy a page of a site, often arises in inexperienced Internet users. In the article we will give a detailed answer to it.

Copy, paste, save

The combination of Ctrl + C keys for copying (quick, or hot keys) is easy to remember through a simple association with the identical sounding of the initial letters "K" (copying) and "C" (copy [kopi]), especially since the latter in combination are already two. It's the same with the next pair of shortcut keys for "B-rate" copied (Ctrl + V [vi:]), without which the first one does not make sense. You can, of course, do all this in the context menu, calling it with the right button and selecting the appropriate commands, but with hotkeys you get fewer actions.

If these little tricks are "stuck" in the subconscious, then as soon as it raises the question of how to copy (part of the page of the site, for example), the hand itself will be drawn to the familiar keyboard shortcut. When the "selected" fragment (or the entire web page) is "blue", it will only be necessary to paste it into the prepared Word document.

Why Word? Because it will save all the pictures, links and formatting. But this is rather an instinctive, rather than a deliberate and rational reception. And how to copy the page of the site completely, every self-respecting browser knows, and for this they have a command "Save as ..." in the context menu.

What do you have in the context menu today?

If you right-click on the page in any place where there are no images, links or forms, then the context menu will rightly "jump out" . Each browser in this menu has its own "specialties", but they all offer different options for navigation, saving a page, viewing its source code, manipulating images, frames, and so on.

The "Save As" command is also in the "File" menu in Mozilla Firefox, Safari, and in Chrome it sounds "Save page as" and is on the settings panel called by the button with three bars in the upper right corner. In Opera, this panel is opened by clicking on the logo of the browser (the red letter "O" in the upper left corner), where the "Save As" command is located in the "Page" submenu. In Internet Explorer, click on the gear at the top right, go to "Tools" and choose "Save As" from the "File" menu.

Browsers, of course, are very clever programs, but the computer has a simple solution for calling the Save As dialog box . This is a combination of Ctrl + S, which, by the way, is very useful to periodically press, working with text, to avoid known Troubles.

How to copy a web page

In the dialog box, you are prompted to select the folder where you want to put the copied file, and 4 options for saving it: "Web page, completely", "Web page, HTML only", "Text files" and "All files". If we are interested in how to copy the page of the site (1), of course, choose the option "Web Page, complete ..." and assign a file to a name, press the "Save" button.

Having opened the specified directory, we will find there a folder with all the contents of the web page (images, scripts, forms, index files, authorize, bootstrap, etc.), and also a file with the .htm extension, separately from the folder, This "bare" html framework with "live" links, but without style design. If you pay attention to the address bar, you will see the following entry: file: /// C: / Users / ... and so on. Do you need comments? This file is already on your disk, therefore, it will open in all browsers and without the Internet, but links, of course, will not work.

By saving the web page in other variants, you get exactly what you chose (only HTML, only text or all files).

How to "break through the defense"

Now you need to figure out how to copy the site page (2), if it is copy-protected. In this case, in the context menu of the page (right click), select the command "Source code of the page" (in Mozilla Firefox), or "View source code", "View page code", "View HTML code" , etc. in Other browsers. And it is not necessary to open the entire page code, since the browser can only show the selected fragment. By the way, in Chrome, Opera and Mozilla Firefox, the source code is opened with the Ctrl + U key combination.

If users who are figuring out how to copy the site page (3) had one of these "light" web editors installed on the computer, like Web Page Maker, they would have guessed to open it and then save on their disk any Page almost in its original form, and together with all the "protective measures". After saving the command "Export to Html ...", the Web Page Maker Web site will put all the image files in daddy and give you the html-file of the loaded page with "local registration".

"Workaround"

If for you it does not matter how important it is to copy the page of the site, just to get it with all the content, then you can save the file in pdf format. This option may be less popular than conventional methods, but it is very simple, affordable and effective, especially since in the Google Chrome browser, for example, it can be done without "outside help".

Clicking on the already familiar button at the top right, open the browser options panel and select "Print" (Ctrl + P). In the print settings window on the left, click "Change" in the "Printer" line, then in the next window, select "Save as PDF" as the local destination. We finish the procedure with the "Save" button, indicating where to put the file.

The "outside help" that will be required to convert to pdf in other browsers is special extensions or special web services.