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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 don't know which genius came up with Text Fragments, but it's an excellent way to share links to web pages and highlight the content you want the recipient to see.

    Like this:

    developer.mozilla.org/en-US/do.

    I always wondered what the "Copy Link to Highlight" option did in @Vivaldi - but now I know. :tongue_wink_fb:

    #Internet #WebBrowsers #DeepLink #TextFragments #WebDev

  3. I don't know which genius came up with Text Fragments, but it's an excellent way to share links to web pages and highlight the content you want the recipient to see.

    Like this:

    developer.mozilla.org/en-US/do.

    I always wondered what the "Copy Link to Highlight" option did in @Vivaldi - but now I know. :tongue_wink_fb:

    #Internet #WebBrowsers #DeepLink #TextFragments #WebDev

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. @ireddick

    #TextFragments sounds great! I could have used that earlier today. And many other days... Now added to my list of handy tools, I'm sure I'll use it a lot.

  7. @ireddick

    #TextFragments sounds great! I could have used that earlier today. And many other days... Now added to my list of handy tools, I'm sure I'll use it a lot.

  8. @[email protected] supports text fragments in 131! I've been waiting for this, it makes linking to sites that don't expose reasonable anchors so much easier!

    developer.mozilla.org/en-US/do

  9. @mozilla #Firefox supports text fragments in 131! I've been waiting for this, it makes linking to sites that don't expose reasonable anchors so much easier!

    developer.mozilla.org/en-US/do

    #Web #WebDev #Mozilla #TextFragments