Screenshot to Component

About

Screenshot to Component lets you select any UI element on a webpage and instantly extract everything you need to replicate it as a component.

THREE WAYS TO CAPTURE

1. Click the extension icon → press "Select Element" → hover and click any element on the page
2. Right-click any element → choose "Capture this element" from the context menu
3. Right-click anywhere → choose "Select element to capture..." to enter selection mode

After capture, a green ✓ badge appears on the extension icon. Click the icon to view the full component specification.

HOW IT WORKS

1. Trigger capture using the popup button, right-click context menu, or selection mode
2. Hover over any element — a tooltip shows its tag, classes, and dimensions
3. Click to capture (Shift+click for multi-select, Esc to cancel)
4. A toast notification confirms the capture on the page
5. Click the extension icon to view Spec, HTML, CSS, and DOM tree
6. Export as React, JSON, CSS, or download a bundle

WHAT IT EXTRACTS

For each selected element, the extension reads the browser's computed styles, DOM structure, and visual properties to produce a complete component specification:

- Cropped screenshot of the selected region
- Computed CSS (layout, visual, typography, transforms) with browser defaults filtered out
- Clean HTML with formatting artifacts removed
- DOM tree visualisation up to 5 levels deep
- Color palette extracted from the element and its children
- Typography details (font families, sizes)
- Interactive element inventory (buttons, inputs, links)

EXPORT FORMATS

Copy your captured component in the format you need:
- Spec JSON — full structured data for design tools or documentation
- HTML — cleaned markup ready to paste
- CSS — computed styles as a standalone stylesheet
- React component — auto-generated functional component
- React Native component — auto-generated RN component
- Bundle download — everything in a single JSON file

The extension keeps a history of your last 20 captures for quick reference. Click any history item to reload its full data.

PRIVACY

- All extraction runs locally in your browser
- No data is sent to external servers
- No tracking or analytics
- Screenshots are captured locally using the Chrome tabs API and cropped in-browser
- Scripts are only injected when you actively trigger a capture — never passively

Built for frontend developers, UI designers, and anyone who needs to accurately replicate a UI component from an existing webpage.

Made by Cosmos Web Tech — Digital Solutions for Sydney Businesses