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Re:Firefox 41 can screenshot a single DOM element by skalkin on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @09:58PM (#10308759)
Clicked on it hoping that this is a new browser feature that I can access from the web page via JavaScript... but this is just a dev tool. I hope that this feature will eventually appear, currently taking snapshots from the client side is a major pain point.
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Re:Firefox 41 can screenshot a single DOM element by maaaats on Thursday October 01, 2015 @04:49AM (#10309977)
<div id="mydiv"><iframe src=facebook.com...

screenshot("#mydiv"), send to my server

would need some security handling, at least.

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Re:Firefox 41 can screenshot a single DOM element by awy on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @10:29PM (#10308858)
There was a DOM2Canvas library at some stage, though it wasn't perfect and it couldn't render images (for security reasons).
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Re:Firefox 41 can screenshot a single DOM element by kevingadd on Thursday October 01, 2015 @04:03AM (#10309844)
Multiple browser engines have the ability to do this, but every time I've asked there's been no intent to ever expose it to webpages/webapps, just extensions.
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