Is there a way to highlight all occurrences of the searched key word in the page ?

I have tried multiple times, but when I create a link to text the URL only goes to the page and not the text.

Is there some way to fix this?

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Hey Thomas -- this could probably be one of the most useful extensions I've found in Chrome as it basically makes Deep Linking in web pages possible. Kinda odd how researchers aren't scrambling to install this. Anyway, I use this app as part of my research / note-taking workflow and have to do a few extra steps to turn the links generated into readable text. I was wondering if there is a way (or maybe through a workaround) to have generated link instead copy the highlighted text for easy pasting. If this isn't possible through the app itself, any useful advice on workarounds to achieve this will be highly appreciated

Thanks!

I'm trying to make a link to elle a brisé on https://leconjugueur.lefigaro.fr/conjugaison/verbe/briser_feminin.html.

If I just put the text at the right place (#:~:text=elle a brisé), it doesn't work.

When I use "Copy link to selected text" while highlighting elle a brisé, I get #:~:text=briseelle a brisenous, which is incorrect; it's not the text I've highlighted and it doesn't make any sense.

I've tried using the prefix and suffix as... a prefix and a suffix according to the README.md (#:~:text=brise-,elle a brise,-nous), but that doesn't work either.

The previous and next lines seems to be merged with the first and last words respectively regardless of the <br /> separating them. Not only that, but it also doesn't seem to be able to separate one word from its prefix & suffix.

The extension should be tested to make it work offline.
E.g., if we are browsing file:///home/xyz.html
then we should be able to make perfectly legitimate
file:///home/xyz.html#bla_bla links.

No matter for testing, or interpage linking, the extension should work
perfectly fine offline too.

If for some reason it is not possible to make a link,
the extension should at least
issue an alert, instead of doing nothing.

Else the user will just end up fruitlessly trying to paste what he discovers
is not what he intended.

I was on this page https://www.ivelt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2245310 and used the extension to generate a link and it generated the following, which is not a working link to the page: https://www.ivelt.com/forum/viewtopic.php#post_content2244975:~:text=%D7%91%D7%90%D7%96%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%A2.

Why doesn't it leave the ?p=2245310 part of the original URL (like https://www.ivelt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2245310#post_content2244975:~:text=%D7%91%D7%90%D7%96%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%A2) which would be a working link to text fragment?

Its doesnt work for example on: https://atlauncher.com/#:~:text=Dec%2016%2C%202020%20%2D%20Microsoft%20accounts%20now%20supported

is there a way to build programmatically generate link to the highlighted text.
for example: I am looking to create C# function that accepts url and the paragraph to be highlighted that returns the url.

generateLTFlink(string url, string paragraphTobehighlighted){

return ltfurl;
}

here is what I tried so far and it ran

` public static string GetTextHighLighterUrl(string firstValidFileUrl, string answer)
{
var sb = new StringBuilder();
var textHighLighterUrl = string.Empty;
var highlightText = answer.Replace(firstValidFileUrl, "");
highlightText = highlightText.Replace("()", "");
highlightText = $"{Regex.Replace(highlightText, @"[[^]]*]", "")}"; // remove text within square brackets.
highlightText = $"{Regex.Replace(highlightText, @"\t|\r", "$$")}";
highlightText = RemoveExtraSentences(highlightText, "$$").Trim();
highlightText = highlightText.Replace("$$", "");
highlightText = FilterWhiteSpaces(highlightText);
highlightText = highlightText.Replace("$", "");
highlightText = highlightText.Replace("(/)", "");
highlightText = highlightText.Replace(""", "%22");
highlightText = highlightText.Replace(",", "%2C");

        if (!ContainsOnlyAlphaNumericCharacters(highlightText))
        {
            //remove sentences with special char and get a safe sentence
            highlightText = GetCleanSentence(highlightText);
        }


        if (highlightText.Length > 50)
        {
            var textArrayn = highlightText.Split("\n"); //if ans contains \n
            if (highlightText.Contains("\n") && textArrayn?.Length == 2)
            {
                textArrayn = highlightText.Split("\n");
            }
            else
            {
                textArrayn = new List<string>().ToArray();
            }
            var textArray = highlightText.Split();
            var n = textArray.Length;
            sb.Clear();
            for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
            {
                if (IsValidIndex(i, textArray))
                {
                    sb = sb.Append(textArray[i] + "%20");
                }
            }
            var start = sb.ToString();
            if (start.Contains(","))
            {
                var tempStart = start.Split(",");
                start = tempStart[0].ToString();
            }


            if (textArrayn.Length > 0)
            {
                start = textArrayn[0].ToString();  //if ans contains \n then start from there
            }
            sb.Clear();
            for (int i = n - 6; i <= n; i++)
            {
                if (IsValidIndex(i, textArray))
                {
                    if (i != n - 1)
                    {
                        sb = sb.Append(textArray[i] + "%20");
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        sb = sb.Append(textArray[i]);
                    }

                }
            }
            var end = sb.ToString().Trim();
            end = end.Replace(",", "%2C");
            sb.Clear();
            sb = sb.Append(firstValidFileUrl).Append("#object:~:text=").Append(start).Append(",").Append(end);
            textHighLighterUrl = sb.ToString();
            sb.Clear();
        }
        else
        {
            sb.Clear();
            highlightText = highlightText.Replace(" ", "%20");
            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(highlightText))
            {
                sb = sb.Append(firstValidFileUrl).Append("#object:~:text=").Append(highlightText);
            }
            else
            {
                sb = sb.Append(firstValidFileUrl);
            }

            textHighLighterUrl = sb.ToString();
            sb.Clear();
        }
        textHighLighterUrl = $"{Regex.Replace(textHighLighterUrl, @"\.{2,}", "")}";//edge cases.Remove Multiple dots
        textHighLighterUrl = textHighLighterUrl.Replace(",%20,", ",");

        return textHighLighterUrl;
    }`

I'm attempting to link jump for citation purposes on the government cdc website. I use the link-to-text app on chrome and paste it appropriately but it will jump to my desired highlighted text and then jump to the top of the page quickly thereafter.

I mean this one:

Try it out by clicking on this link: https://wicg.github.io/ScrollToTextFragment/#ref-for-fragment-directive:~:text=%23%3A~%3Atext%3D%5Bprefix%2D%2C%5DtextStart%5B%2CtextEnd%5D%5B%2C%2Dsuffix%5D.

Seems to be because they renamed the repo to wicg/scroll-to-text-fragment and the fragment doesn't make it through the redirect.

for manipulation issues, just that

A lot of time I'd be happy with it working on the first match. I believe this would be the extension forcing this and not chrome which I'm guessing would go to the first match.

Maybe display the message but still copy the link in case the user is happy with this (that is make it a suggestion rather than an error).

Here's an interesting case:

I was trying to copy a link to this text but the extension gave up due to uniqueness.

Turns out on GitHub it's common to have text quoted which means large sections will be non unique. It's a bit of an edge case for our algorithm.

However, in this case, simply using the last few words of the previous numbered list entry works as disambiguating context. I haven't had a chance to dig into the code yet but it looks like the extension isn't (correctly) crossing the block boundary to find context when the match starts at a block boundary.

with,b) * (a-b)
with,b)%20*%20(a-b)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44429173/javascript-encodeuri-failed-to-encode-round-bracket

Unable to use chrome extension to link from a google sheet cell to a text fragment in a google support page

The Chrome extension created this link for me:
https://wiki.eclipse.org/Tycho/Reference_Card#:~:text=include%20source%20bundles)-,target%20runtime%20environment,-Specify%20which%20environments

Do you see the closing parenthesis ")" in the URL? That is a problem, just like an opening parenthesis, if you want to use that URL in a markdown documentlink, because the format is [My description](https://my.url.org/foo/bar). Now when using the URL in a link directly here on GitHub, it looks like this:

My description-,target%20runtime%20environment,-Specify%20which%20environments)

If I manually URL-encode the closing parenthesis as %29, the link looks OK:

My description

So please, enable the user to specify a list of characters which should be URL-encoded by default.

Link To Text Fragment will be new chapter for Web Browser, I think. Thanks for thought out such of things.

I don't know, how user will take to see success or failed toast/notification message while they're copy link for Text Highlighting through Link to Text Fragment.

But I saw, some of websites not working to make text highlighting link through LTTF. Example website : Chrome Webstore.

I tried to create a link to the following text, but I had to insert the dot character "." after "exception" into the link myself to make it work.

Broken link created via select + right-click > Copy Link to selected text:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/msdn-magazine/2009/february/clr-inside-out-handling-corrupted-state-exceptions#:~:text=execution-,corrupted%20state%20exceptions,-In

Working link after fixing it manually:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/msdn-magazine/2009/february/clr-inside-out-handling-corrupted-state-exceptions#:~:text=execution.-,corrupted%20state%20exceptions,-In

While in a web browser I often use the middle mouse click on a link to open the link in a new tab.  However recently this stop working so I have had to start using Ctrl-Click.  I finally decided to search for a solution to this issue.  One of the first hits I found indicated that some extensions can interfere with the middle-click. So I disabled all my extensions to see if this was my issue and found that middle click started working again. Re-enabling and retesting it ended up being link-to-test-fragment was the culprit.

https://www.usvotefoundation.org/vote/us/state-voting-information/IL#collapseEight:~:text=Overseas%20Voter
will not help sharees get to here,

Because that spot needs a few clicks to get to in the first place, when first visiting the page.

So maybe the app should say in an alert, that sorry, we are not able to give you this link because it wont work, as the page wasn't in the initial state etc...

Raw or HTML.

As per title - all the information is here

https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/61192-chrome-extension-is-disabled-when-running-ccleaner-custom-clean/
(Password not required to read)

Please contact me for further information if needed. Tnx

I'm using a # 1:~:text= to link the important list at the last of my doc but can't.

Attempting to copy the link to any text will copy nothing. I have attempted with both rich and raw modes. I'm using Safari 15 on MacOS Monterey.

When I do ctrl+shift+l to left align on Google Docs, the popup appears telling me I haven't selected anything to copy the link to. This also prevents the shortcut from working (the text is still center aligned). I am on a Chromebook, if that has anything to do with the shortcut not working. I'm a little disappointed that 3 Google products clash and don't work together properly.

IIUC, the extension should be able to do its work by just inspecting the single page on which I've clicked its context menu item, but when I click that context menu item in Chrome, it asks to "Read and change all your data on the websites you visit."

I'm getting an error anytime I try to use the Link to Text Fragment extension in Chrome.

No matter how much text I select, I always get this error:

Can you help me understand what I'm doing wrong?

The following link isn't working: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6125#page-44:~:text=E.g.%20*.bar.com%20would%20match%20a.bar.com

text fragment: E.g. *.bar.com would match a.bar.com

Screenshot:

this link seems to work: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6125#page-44:~:text=more%20than%20one%20dNSName%20name,-)%2C

I'm thinking the special characters are the difference. Is this a Chrome issue?

I just needed to know that can we only highlight one text and not multiple texts in different paragraphs in a web page?

Using Chrome 89.0.4389.114 (Official Build) (64-bit) (cohort: Stable)
on Windows 10 20H2

Doesn't work on a link like this:
https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-virtual-apps-desktops/1912-ltsr/install-configure/install-command.html#command-line-options-for-installing-a-vda

You will get this:
https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-virtual-apps-desktops/1912-ltsr/install-configure/install-command.html#4:~:text=the%20installer%20resumes%20automatically%20after%20the%20restart%20completes

But it should be this (removed the 4 from #4):
https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-virtual-apps-desktops/1912-ltsr/install-configure/install-command.html#:~:text=the%20installer%20resumes%20automatically%20after%20the%20restart%20completes

No idea where the #4 comes from.

This link works:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/configmgr/core/clients/deploy/configure-client-status#configure-alerts

Using right click action gives me this:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/configmgr/core/clients/deploy/configure-client-status#configure-alerts:~:text=Select%20the%20collection%20for%20which%20you,in%20the%20Properties%20group%2C%20select%20Properties.

I just found this while looking for ways to bookmark flower seed entries on a plain-text website. Works great in Firefox 95 so far. Thank you for supporting multiple clients!

One suggestion, if possible, is for there to be an option to create a bookmark of the highlighted text, with the bookmark's name being the highlighted text itself.

I can do this myself by creating the bookmark ahead of time and copying and pasting the text in it, but this could cut down on the amount of copying and pasting to get the same result. It'd be understandable if this isn't possible due to security issues or it being outside the scope of the extension, though.

Did it actually work for pdf file(opened in chromium).? It did not work for me. For HTML files it is working fine.
For PDF file opened in chrome/chromium, it will show the context menu to "copy link to selected text" but actually no link is getting copied.

I am using the Firefox 93 version of Link-to-text-fragment, on a Windows 7 PC, which also runs Telegram-messenger.

Posting the raw link to a text fragment on a webpage to Telegram, and subsequently activating it in Telegram, opens the associated webpage URL, but the page does not scroll to the location of the linked text fragment.

Thank you.

I should have submitted WICG/scroll-to-text-fragment#144 here, they say.

When trying to highlight the following text:

March 29th, 2022 - Windows 473.33, Linux 470.62.26

From this page: https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-driver

Your extension generates the following URL:

https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-driver#:~:text=march%2029th%2C%202022%20-%20windows%20473.33%2C%20linux%20470.62.26

When you open the URL above on Firefox 98.0.2, it highlights the text successfully, but the same does not happen on Chrome 100.0.4896.60.

Using Chrome's built-in "Copy link to highlight" feature, this URL is generated instead (and it works on both Firefox and Chrome):

https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-driver#:~:text=March%2029th%2C%202022%20%2D%20Windows%20473.33%2C%20Linux%20470.62.26

Maybe it could help you find a solution.

Thank you for this extension by the way!

System: windows 10 and arch linux
Browser: firefox 88.0.1
Extension version: 2.0.1

Steps to reproduce

same for private window or not

firefox --private-window https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/bash-shell-change-the-color-of-my-shell-prompt-under-linux-or-unix/#:~:text=you%20also%20need%20to%20put%20%5C%5B%20and%20%5C%5D%20around%20any%20color%20codes%20so%20that%20bash%20does%20not%20take%20them%20into%20account%20when%20calculating%20line%20wraps.

Expected behavior

Opening link right after start firefox will scroll to target.

Actual behavior

Opening link right after start firefox doesn't scroll to target.
I need to right click and copy another text as link in order to make the extension work.
Details see attached screen capture video.

I'd like the URL to contain the full quote of the text from the page. As such, instead of generating a URL using both textStart and textEnd I would like an option to copy a URL for an "exact" search (using textStart only and leaving textEnd undefined).

This way I can decode the URL to get the full quotation without visiting the site, it also will invalidate the URL (which sometimes I want) if the text on the page changes and I still know what the site said when the URL was previously generated.

I propose adding another context menu option in addition to the existing "Copy Link to Selected Text", perhaps captioned as "Copy Exact Link to Selected Text".

Where can I see the logic that generates the hyperlink from the selected paragraph when we right-click on the selected text. I am trying to see if I can generate that hyperlink programmatically by sending the text to be highlighted as input params.

Cannot select text with German mutation (e.g ä,ö,ü)

If you try to link to
"bestätigt, nur um die offensichtliche Forschungsarbeit rund um autonome Systeme wird kein Geheimnis gemacht"

in
https://www.heise.de/news/Apple-heuert-Teslas-ehemaligen-Autopilot-Director-an-6260442.html

You get
https://www.heise.de/news/Apple-heuert-Teslas-ehemaligen-Autopilot-Director-an-6260442.html#:~:text=bestatigt%2C%20nur%20um%20die%20offensichtliche%20forschungsarbeit%20rund%20um%20autonome%20systeme%20wird%20kein%20geheimnis%20gemacht

and it's not working. The mutations are not included in "bestätigt". If I modify "bestatigt" to "bestätigt" in the URL like this
https://www.heise.de/news/Apple-heuert-Teslas-ehemaligen-Autopilot-Director-an-6260442.html#:~:text=bestätigt%2C%20nur%20um%20die%20offensichtliche%20forschungsarbeit%20rund%20um%20autonome%20systeme%20wird%20kein%20geheimnis%20gemacht

it's working fine.

Hi there,
I'm unable to use this to generate a link in ServiceNow, it tells me "Couldn't create a unique link, please select a longer sequence of words." when I select a longer sequence it doesn't solve the issue.

See the screen recording.

Thanks!

When I try to create a link, the background page shows the following errors:

Unchecked runtime.lastError: Cannot create item with duplicate id copy-link
_generated_background_page.html:1 Unchecked runtime.lastError: Could not establish connection. Receiving end does not exist.
background_script.js:149 Uncaught (in promise) Error: Failed to connect to the specified tab.
    at background_script.js:149
(anonymous) @ background_script.js:149
async function (async)
startProcessing @ background_script.js:125
(anonymous) @ background_script.js:120
async function (async)
(anonymous) @ background_script.js:115

Hi, is it possible to change the highlight colour when we click the hyperlinked text?

• Site: https://wol.jw.org/ru/wol/b/r2/lp-u/bi12/40/24#study=discover
• Screenshot:
  

In my search results, I'm seeing highlights in multiple areas (e.g. a sentence here, a paragraph there).
(Example from some recent (sad) news)

How can I do this in my own selecting of text so I can link to those highlighted parts? I've figured out how to manually enter it in based on the syntax but is there any way to do it with Shift/Ctrl or whatever?

There is an alert when you try to create a link on the text that was selected by triple-click with the left button of the mouse on any site.

Steps to reproduce

1. Open any site with text, for example, Wikipedia
2. Press the left button three times
3. Press the right button, choose "Copy link to selected text"

As the tittle says, can't find the option to create the shortcut