Alex Chan: Linking to text fragments with a bookmarklet. “Text fragments allow you to link directly to specific text on a web page, and some browsers will highlight the linked text – for example, by scrolling to it, or adding a coloured highlight. … But I don’t find the syntax especially intuitive – I can never remember exactly what mix of colons and tildes to add to a URL. To help me out, I’ve written a small bookmarklet to generate these URLs.”

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