Google’s Chrome 80 introduced a new deep linking feature called “Scroll to Text Fragment.” That description struggles to describe what it does.
Basically, it lets you specify a link that will position a web page at a string that you choose.
Here’s a screen shot that doesn’t use it.
Here’s a screen shot that scrolls to “Beat”.
Notice that the requested string is highlighted.
Now for the bad news. It’s really hard to use.
Here’s the URL that I used in the above example.
https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/20/psa-yes-you-can-join-a-zoom-meeting-in-the-browser/#:~:text=Beat
And I can’t find a tool that lets you easily construct that URL. I use Notepad.
Originally published at https://blog.benmoore.info.
