# HTML & CSS extractor

> Pick any element on a website and copy its HTML and CSS. Preview, copy or save a button, card or section with the Sitepeel Chrome extension, in one click.

Canonical page: https://sitepeel.dev/html-css-extractor/

Copy HTML and CSS from a website element with Sitepeel’s Pick element tool. Select a button, card or section, review its preview and export the code for your project.

Updated: 2026-09-18

This is a tool in the Sitepeel Chrome extension (free to install: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sitepeel/khcjkaobanoeohahnlffnnppinoeljme). All extension tools: https://sitepeel.dev/features/index.md

## Highlights

- Select one element
- Preview the code
- Copy or save a file

## How to use it

1. **Choose Pick element** Open Sitepeel and move over the page to identify the element you want.
2. **Select the right container** Pick the whole card or section when the layout depends on its children.
3. **Review and copy** Check the preview, copy the code and adapt the styling in your own project.

## Keep the export focused

A small, well-chosen selection is easier to understand than a whole page. Start with a button to study its type, padding and border; choose a card when you need to understand how text and images are grouped.

If a selected child looks wrong on its own, inspect the parent. Width, alignment and inherited typography can come from higher in the page.

## From extracted code to a reusable component

Replace reference content and rename classes to match your project. Consolidate repeated colors and spacing values into tokens, then test the result within your actual page layout.

Extracted markup reflects browser output. It is not the original React, Vue or other framework source, and it does not automatically include application state or event handlers.

- Check links, image paths and font availability.
- Add semantic controls and keyboard behavior where needed.
- Review narrow screens and longer text.

## Choose an export for the task

Use Pick element for a focused HTML and CSS snippet. Choose Clone page for a rendered page snapshot. Choose Design MD when you want a reference for design decisions rather than markup.

## Questions and answers

### Can I copy a React component from another website?

You can extract its rendered HTML and styling. The original component source, props and state are not available from that output.

### Why does an element look different after I paste it?

It may depend on parent layout, inherited styles, fonts or external assets. Compare those dependencies and test it in its new container.

## Related pages

- [Copy HTML and CSS](https://sitepeel.dev/guides/copy-html-css-from-website/index.md): Copy a website element’s HTML and CSS with the Pick element tool in Sitepeel, then fix the fonts, assets and parent styles that it depends on.
- [Fix copied CSS that looks wrong](https://sitepeel.dev/guides/copied-css-not-working/index.md): Copied HTML and CSS looks different? Check the stylesheet loads, then compare inherited values, custom properties, the parent layout and pseudo-elements.
- [Website cloner](https://sitepeel.dev/website-cloner/index.md): Clone any website: paste a link for a free AI clone prompt, or save the page as HTML and CSS with the Sitepeel Chrome extension, even behind a login.