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Long Screenshot feature in APEX

📸 Oracle APEX Tips Capture the Entire APEX Page Screenshot Where It All Started A few months back, one of our project team members asked me a simple question: "Can we let users take a screenshot of the entire page?" I said, "Sure, that should be easy!" and immediately regretted it. "I tried using the browser's built-in screenshot option first. But it only captured what was visible on the screen. Anything below the fold was missing. That was not going to work for our use case." So I went looking for alternatives. I tried a few browser extension based approaches but those obviously would not work for end users who don't have the extension installed. Then I found html2canvas and things started to make sense. Why Would You Even Need This? Honestly, at first I thought it was a niche requirement. But after deploying it, the team started using it for so many...