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Linking to text fragments with a bookmarklet(alexwlchan.net)
28 points by Bogdanp 6 days ago | 9 comments
ulrischa 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

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 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

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

privatelypublic 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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.

johnnymellor 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This would be useful in Chrome for Android (which doesn't yet have this feature built-in), but activating bookmarklets on Android (via https://paul.kinlan.me/use-bookmarklets-on-chrome-on-android...) clears the text selection. So instead I've put together an alternative bookmarklet that lets you select the text to link to after activating the bookmarklet: https://gist.github.com/johnmellor/ef5ecf555f28b324b045e0c93...

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xnx 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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

crtasm 2 days ago | parent [-]

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

throwaway81523 2 days ago | parent [-]

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

extra88 2 days ago | parent [-]

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.