Google has released Scroll to Text fragment extension for Chrome on Chrome Web Store and is now available for download.
Recently Google integrated Scroll to Text Fragment feature into Chrome browser (available in new Microsoft Edge also). The Text fragment makes it easy to generate and share a link to a particular piece of text on a web page.
Google itself using the feature for Featured snippets on its search results page on Scroll to Text Fragment supported browsers such as Chrome, Vivaldi, Opera, and new Microsoft Edge.
Till now except through the bookmarklet, there is no intuitive way or to UI option provided in Chrome to create text fragments links. Google is now providing that in Chromium browsers via newly released Link to Text Fragment extension.
Link to Text Fragment Chrome Extension
Using the extension is pretty straight forward.
- Launch Chrome browser or new Microsoft Edge
- Navigate to https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/link-to-text-fragment/pbcodcjpfjdpcineamnnmbkkmkdpajjg
- Click Add to Chrome
After installing the extension,
1. Visit Wikipedia or any web page,
2. Select a phrase or some words, right-click and select “Copy Link to Selected Text”
Share the link or open a new tab and paste it and press enter to see, browser highlighting the text you want to see without scrolling.
Do note the extension itself requests to select a longer sequence of words if it fails to create a unique link for the word or text you’ve selected.
UPDATE July 04, 2020: The Extension received a new icon and Keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+L or Command+Shift+L).
Link to Text Fragment Extension is available on Microsoft Edge Add-ons Store here.
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I still prefer the Bookmarklet version you shared sometime back. Don’t trust Google to not introduce some resource hog bits into extension format since its there on every right click context menu.