Save Entire Website in Edge: Every Subpage, Offline

Microsoft Edge can save the page you are looking at, but not the website behind it. Press Ctrl+S and Edge offers three formats: Webpage Complete, Webpage Single File (MHTML) and HTML Only. Each one saves a single page. To save an entire website in Edge, with every subpage, image and stylesheet, you need a tool that follows the links for you. That can be installed software, or an online downloader that you open in an ordinary Edge tab and that returns the whole site as one ZIP file. This guide compares the built-in formats, shows where extensions stop, and walks through the full-site method.

Where is "Save page as" in Microsoft Edge, and what does Ctrl+S save?

There are three ways to open the save dialog in desktop Edge on Windows, macOS or Linux:

• Press Ctrl+S, or Cmd+S on a Mac.
• Open the menu (the three dots at the top right) and choose More tools > Save page as.
• Right-click an empty part of the page and choose Save as.

All three open the same file dialog. The choice that matters is the Save as type drop-down at the bottom. It decides what ends up on your disk.

Webpage Complete vs. Single File (MHTML) vs. HTML Only

For one page you want to read later, Edge MHTML single file is usually the most convenient choice. If you need the image files themselves, use Edge save page as Webpage Complete. Avoid HTML Only unless you just want the text.

Two caveats apply to all three formats. Edge saves the page as it exists in the tab at that moment. Images that only load when you scroll to them may be missing unless you scrolled through the page first. And every link in the saved page still points to the live website, not to another saved file.

Can Edge save all pages of a website at once?

No. Save page as works on one document at a time, and nothing in Edge follows the menu or the internal links to find the other pages. Saving a 60-page site would mean opening and saving 60 pages by hand. Even then, the copies would not link to each other: clicking a menu item in a saved page sends you back to the internet.

Edge's other built-in features don't fill the gap either:

• Print > Save as PDF produces a static document of one page, without working navigation.
• Collections, Favorites and reading lists store links, not content. When the site changes or disappears, so does what you saved.
• Web capture (Ctrl+Shift+S) takes a screenshot of the visible page or a selected area.

Edge is built on Chromium, so all of this matches what you would find in Chrome. Our guide to saving an entire website in Chrome covers the same ground for that browser.

Edge extensions: what SingleFile and Save Page WE do well, and where they stop

The SingleFile extension for Edge and Save Page WE are both available from the Edge Add-ons store. They improve on the built-in dialog in useful ways:

• They save a page as one self-contained .html file, with images and styles embedded. Unlike MHTML, that file opens in Firefox, Safari and any other browser.
• They tend to handle lazy-loaded images and web fonts better than Save page as.
• SingleFile can save every open tab in one go, which helps if you have a dozen pages open.

Both are still page savers, not site crawlers. They don't discover subpages on their own. Each saved file stands alone, and links between saved pages still point to the live web. For a handful of articles that is fine. For a 300-page site, saving tab by tab is not realistic, and you would end up with 300 loose files and no working navigation.

Also keep in mind that a page-saving extension needs permission to read every site you visit. Install only the ones you trust.

How to save an entire website from Edge with nothing to install

To capture every subpage, use a crawler. It starts at the home page, follows each internal link, downloads every page and file it finds, and packages the result. Desktop crawlers such as HTTrack or wget have to be installed and configured (see our HTTrack alternative guide and four ways to download a site on Windows). Website Downloader runs the crawl on its own servers, so all you need is an Edge tab:

1. Open the Website Downloader home page in Edge.
2. Paste the address of the site, ideally the home page, for example https://example.com.
3. Start the download. Progress is shown live as pages are found and saved. Your computer does not need to stay on during the crawl.
4. When it finishes, download the ZIP file. Edge saves it to your Downloads folder like any other file.
5. Unzip it. On Windows, right-click the file and choose Extract All. On a Mac, double-click it.
6. Open index.html in Edge, or in any other browser, and browse the site offline.

The archive is a normal folder of HTML files with the site's stylesheets, scripts, fonts, images and media next to them. Nothing is locked into a proprietary format, so you can copy the folder to a USB stick, open it on a Mac or Linux machine, or put it on another web host.

The Free plan needs no account. It covers up to 100 subpages per download and keeps the archive for 1 day, which is enough for many small business sites and portfolios. For larger sites there are paid options:

• Single Site: a one-time payment of 7.99 EUR for one website, up to 5000 subpages and 2 GB.
• Monthly plans: Basic (9.99 EUR, up to 2000 subpages), Standard (19.99 EUR, up to 5000) and Premium (39.99 EUR, up to 30000). They can be cancelled at any time.

Paid archives are kept for 30 days. See pricing for details. If the site is already offline, the Wayback Machine downloader can rebuild it from its Internet Archive captures.

One note before you copy someone else's site: saving a page for personal reference is generally treated differently from republishing it. The rules depend on your country and on what you plan to do with the copy, so ask a lawyer if you intend to reuse content you don't own.

Opening the copy offline: what works and what doesn't

An offline copy is a snapshot of what the server sent to visitors. Anything that ran in the browser from plain files still works. Anything that needed the server to answer a request does not.

• Works: page text and layout, navigation between saved pages, images, fonts, embedded video files, downloadable PDFs and most menus or sliders built with ordinary JavaScript.
• Doesn't work: site search, contact forms, shopping carts, comments and anything else that sends data back to a server.
• Not downloaded: pages behind a login. The crawler sees the site the way a logged-out visitor does.
• JavaScript-built sites: some single-page apps built with React, Vue or Angular deliver an empty shell and fill in the content in the browser. The archive can then contain the shell without the content. Our article on why JavaScript sites go blank offline explains how to spot this in advance.
• Refused downloads: some sites block automated requests, for example with a 403 response. The service reports this instead of handing you an empty archive.

Why are images or styles missing after saving a page in Edge?

If a page you saved with Ctrl+S looks bare or broken, the cause is usually one of these:

• HTML Only was selected. Save the page again as Webpage Complete or Single File.
• The _files folder was separated or renamed. With Webpage Complete, the .html file looks for its resources in that folder by name. Keep the two side by side and leave both names as they are.
• Images load only when you scroll. Scroll to the bottom of the page before you save, or use SingleFile, which handles this more reliably.
• An MHTML file was opened in Firefox or Safari. Open it in Edge or Chrome instead, or re-save the page as Webpage Complete.
• Styles were injected by a script after loading. Single-file savers sometimes capture these better than the built-in dialog.

If parts are missing from a full-site ZIP, the causes are different: assets hosted on another domain, blocked requests or files loaded only by scripts. Our guide to fixing missing images and CSS goes through them one by one.

FAQ

Will an MHTML file saved in Edge open in Chrome, Firefox or on a Mac?

Chrome, Opera, Brave and Edge itself open .mhtml files, including Edge and Chrome for Mac. Firefox and Safari don't open them natively. If the file needs to work everywhere, save it with SingleFile as a self-contained .html file. For whole sites, use a ZIP of plain HTML files, which opens in any browser.

Can I save a whole website with Edge on my phone?

The Edge apps for Android and iPhone don't offer the desktop save dialog with its three formats, and no mobile browser crawls subpages. You can still open the download form in mobile Edge, start the crawl and download the ZIP when it's ready. Our iPhone and Android guide covers opening the archive on a phone.

Can Edge save pages behind a login or sites built entirely with JavaScript?

Edge's Ctrl+S saves whatever is in your tab, so it can save a single page you are logged into. Website Downloader does not download pages behind a login. For sites that build all their content in the browser, the archive may contain only the page shell, so test a few pages before relying on the copy.

How large a site can I save, and how long is the ZIP kept?

The free plan handles up to 100 subpages and keeps the ZIP for 1 day. Single Site covers up to 5000 subpages and 2 GB for 7.99 EUR. The monthly plans go up to 30000 subpages per download, and paid archives are kept for 30 days. The FAQ answers further questions about limits and downloads.