Convert HTML to JPG from an .html file

To convert HTML to JPEG, select or drop your .html or .htm file on the tool above, choose a Resolution and an Image quality, and press Convert to JPEG. Your file is laid out on A4 pages, the way it would print, and each page becomes a JPG picture. A short file gives one JPG named after it; a longer one gives a ZIP of numbered pages.

JPG and JPEG are two names for one format, so an HTML to JPG converter and an HTML to JPEG converter make the same file. This one needs the file itself: a page saved from your browser, an export or an email template. It cannot take a web address. For a live page, use Print in your browser and choose Save as PDF, then convert PDF to JPG.

Resolution sets the pixels on each page: an A4 page came out at 794 × 1123 pixels at 96 DPI, 1241 × 1754 at 150 DPI (the default) and 2481 × 3508 at 300 DPI. Image quality sets how hard the JPG is compressed. A full A4 page of small print, at 150 DPI, came out at 297 KB on Smaller, 397 KB on Balanced (the default) and 654 KB on Best.

Your HTML is laid out the way a word processor prints it, not the way a browser draws it on screen. We converted test files to see what survives:

• Text, colours and font sizes come through, and table cells stay side by side.
• Flexbox is not applied, so boxes meant to sit next to each other come out stacked. Use a table for columns.
• Pictures written into the file as data URIs are kept. A picture saved beside the .html is not uploaded with it and leaves a blank space, and one linked from another web address is left out too, so embed every picture you need.
• JavaScript does not run, so anything a script would add to the page is missing.
• Content hidden with display: none still shows, so delete menus and cookie notices first.
• A CSS page break starts a new page, and so a new JPG. Put page-break-before: always in a heading's style attribute: in our tests the same rule on a div, set through a class, was ignored.
• To change the page with a CSS @page rule, give the margin a unit: margin: 0mm removes it, but margin: 0 with no unit was ignored and the 2 cm margin stayed.

JPEG suits pages with photos. A page filled with a detailed picture came out at 361 KB as a Balanced JPG and 2,361 KB as a PNG.

For pages that are mostly text or diagrams, PNG keeps the edges of letters and lines sharp, and its file is not always bigger. A page packed with small print was 397 KB as a JPG and 536 KB as a PNG, while a page of a few short lines came out a little smaller as a PNG. To get PNG pictures from the same file, convert HTML to PNG. The guide on choosing between JPG and PNG explains the difference. For a page of only text and flat colour, convert HTML to GIF: our receipt page came out at 49 KB as a GIF, against 95 KB as a Balanced JPG.

Other documents become pictures the same way: convert Word to JPG for a .docx, and convert text to JPG for a plain .txt file. To go the other way, convert JPG to HTML reads the words in a picture back into a web page file; in our test the text came back without its colours or pictures.