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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 a text fragment on that page.
Start with the URL of the page you want to link to.
Example: https://help.steviezeigler.com/1
Add #:~:text= to it.
Example: https://help.steviezeigler.com/1#:~:text=
Then add URL encoded text open_in_new quoting where you want the link to jump to.
Tip: You can shorten the URL by replacing any number of the central quoted words with a , .
When visitors follow the link, they'll land on the part of the page with the text (that you added to the URL). It should also be highlighted.
There are some more cool tricks that fragments can do open_in_new
Note: Visitors land in the center of the quote.
Visitors don't seem to land at the top of the quoted text, but in the center. Usually, this won't make much of a difference, but when a long block of text is quoted, it may be confusing.
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.
(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...
Use either the Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browser.
Install the Display #Anchors extension.
On the extension page, follow the instructions in the About section.
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
Note: Options don't appear to combine
Adding both an anchor tag and a text fragment to a single URL seems to make neither work. If you know a way, please share!
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