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Linking to text fragments with a bookmarklet
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alexwlchan.net
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Bogdanp
73 days ago
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ulrischa
73 days ago
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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
73 days ago
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You are awesome, I came to highlight it and there is already the answer. Appreciated.
privatelypublic
73 days ago
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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
73 days ago
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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...
xnx
73 days ago
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As pointed out on the page, the bookmarklet functionality is redundant to built-in context menu feature.
crtasm
73 days ago
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Firefox did not have the menu item for me, I had to go into about:config dom.text_fragments.create_text_fragment.enabled
throwaway81523
73 days ago
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Doesn't appear supported in Firefox 128 LTS. No highlighting whatever I do. Thanks though, maybe it turns up in some later version.
extra88
73 days ago
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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.
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