Scroll to Text Bookmarklet (Link to Text Fragment)

Sushubh · Feb 12, 2020

Scroll to text bookmarklet

Paul is a Developer Advocate for Chrome and the Open Web at Google and loves to help make web development easier.

paul.kinlan.me

this is pretty cool.

Boldly link where no one has linked before: Text Fragments

Text Fragments let you specify a text snippet in the URL fragment. When navigating to a URL with such a text fragment, the browser can emphasize and/or bring it to the user's attention.

web.dev

Sushubh · Feb 12, 2020

JavaScript:

javascript:(function()%7Bconst selectedText %3D getSelection().toString()%3Bconst newUrl %3D new URL(location)%3BnewUrl.hash %3D %60%3A~%3Atext%3D%24%7BencodeURIComponent(selectedText)%7D%60%3Bnavigator.clipboard.writeText(newUrl)%7D)()

boomarklet code to copy url! works well on chrome 81.

Sushubh · Feb 21, 2020

so this seems to be in chrome stable now.

can be tested by clicking on this link:

Redirecting

brave and mozilla are not happy.

Google Chrome 80 Released With Controversial Deep Linking Upgrade

Google Chrome is now running software inside it which may make many users uncomfortable...

www.forbes.com

Sushubh · Jun 21, 2020

Link to Text Fragment

Browser extension that allows for linking to arbitrary text on a page.

chrome.google.com

vignesh_venkatesan · Jun 21, 2020

Maybe it's time to stop using Chrome.
I've been using Chrome since launch and got so used to it so that I can't switch to any other browser.
I should have switched when they brought amp on mobile, but this is pretty bad.

mikrotik · Jun 21, 2020

Link to text fails when text is hidden under a drop down

Sushubh · Jun 21, 2020

yeah it does not work on complicated pages like reddit threads. works well on regular static pages.