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Link to any text on a webpage

When you link to a page, here's how to make that link jump to almost any text on that page you like.

When visitors follow the link, they should land on the part of the page with the text (that you added to the URL). It should also be highlighted.

Caution: This does not seem to work when the text is within a collapsible section.

For example, if I try linking within this collapsed portion of this article, it fails to open.

https://help.steviezeigler.com/174#:~:text=if%20I%20try%20linking%20within%20this%20collapsed%20portion%20of%20this%20article open_in_new

(If you want to link inside a collapsed section, try the different option, below.)

A different option: Display #Anchors

An anchor tag is something that a website designer might have included in the code of a web page. If so, you can link to this too.

It will often open a collapsed section if the anchor is within one.

Find the anchors on a web page

The trickiest part of this method is finding a way to reveal the web page's anchor tags. The easiest way I've found is to...

Learn more about Display #Anchors open_in_new

Anchor link example

Here's a link to this Anchor link example section. (Unlike linking to text, you'll notice that it does open the collapsed section; it does not highlight any text.)

https://help.steviezeigler.com/174#h.3e7586afhjhe open_in_new