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  1. Alex Chan: Linking to text fragments with a bookmarklet. “Text fragments allow you to link directly to specific text on a web page, and some browsers will highlight the linked text – for example, by scrolling to it, or adding a coloured highlight. … But I don’t find the syntax especially intuitive – I can never remember exactly what mix of colons and tildes to add to a URL. To help me […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/15/alex-chan-linking-to-text-fragments-with-a-bookmarklet/

  2. I can imagine this being quite useful in some contexts for some of the longform-friendly editors I work with. I'd be fascinated how tools like #CraftCMS / #CKEditor could support it (and old-fashioned anchor links to #ids too if I'm totally honest): alfy.blog/2024/10/19/linking-d #HTML #textfragments