Linking to text fragments with a bookmarklet

28 pointsposted 5 months ago
by Bogdanp

9 Comments

ulrischa

5 months ago

The implementation is not very good because you can not copy the link generated from the alert. Use this to copy to clipboard: https://gist.github.com/ulrischa/405b93646a0114986575000dcc0...

aalukabi

5 months ago

You are awesome, I came to highlight it and there is already the answer. Appreciated.

privatelypublic

5 months ago

In windows it should be ctrl+c like always for alert()s- even if the UI doesn't show it. Unless "modern" UI has broken that feature.

user

5 months ago

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xnx

5 months ago

As pointed out on the page, the bookmarklet functionality is redundant to built-in context menu feature.

crtasm

5 months ago

Firefox did not have the menu item for me, I had to go into about:config dom.text_fragments.create_text_fragment.enabled

throwaway81523

5 months ago

Doesn't appear supported in Firefox 128 LTS. No highlighting whatever I do. Thanks though, maybe it turns up in some later version.

extra88

5 months ago

Text fragment linking was added in Firefox 131. Firefox 140 is the newest Extended Support Release (ESR) so it can follow such links but I don't know if the context menu has the option to create them.